Employment Screening | 5 Ways to Guarantee You Won’t Fill Your Open Roles Pt. 1

Employment Screening |  We have clients who tell us that in some parts of their businesses they literally have as many open roles as they have people. Each day they get further and further behind on their roadmap (despite everyone working a truly obscene number of hours). Their stakeholders and customers are cranky about it; and the existing staff feel like mice on spinning wheel.

Why can’t they hire?

If you’ve found yourself in a similar position, and you’re comfortable overworking your existing team, and letting your employer brand go down the drain (because trust me, word gets out), here are five ways to ensure your number of open roles goes through the roof. And you may just find yourself dealing with a few extra resignations as an added bonus!

1. Don’t make hiring your priority

Often the problem when it comes to hiring is that you don’t spend enough time on it.

There’s a cliché for sales people that says, “Always be closing”. Well there’s a similar one for business owners and hiring managers to “always be recruiting” – even if it means just keeping your eyes and ears open, and meeting with prospective talent for a coffee,

Let me guess … recruiters are sending you good candidates but you’re just sitting on them for a week or more? I can assure you that no recruiter – no matter whether they’re in-house, contingent, or hourly – wants to work with a hiring manager who does a great impersonation of a black hole.

If you’re not filling your roles, check with your hiring managers. Are they getting back to recruiters and candidates as quickly as possible? And, yes, I mean to prioritize hiring above everything else. After all, how are they going to hit their goals and targets if they don’t get the people through the door?

2. Don’t have a hiring process

“Hey guys – I just finished my phone interview with a great candidate. I love her! Uh… what do I do next?”

How often does this happen at your company? If it’s more than rarely, you probably have a process problem. And a process problem will cause you to lose candidates. Why? Because you won’t get back to them quickly (see #1). Or maybe because you can’t manage their expectations. Imagine if your star candidate heard three different versions of “next steps” from three different interviewers. Sounds rather confusing, which is usually enough to spook a candidate.

If there’s no streamlined recruitment process, the first thing a candidate is going to immediately assume is that there are no processes within the business and that it’s probably completely disorganised. While this might be far from the truth, that’s going to be the candidate’s perception which in their mind will be the reality of the situation.

 

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