Want to harness the power your employees?
Talent acquisition is experiencing the perfect storm. It’s become far more high profile within most organisations as the need to find and retain talent has become more acute, resulting in issues for overall business performance. So the pressure is on!
It’s now become imperative to find quality talent across geographies who can hit the ground running and add value to the business quickly with many companies offering relocation packages, additional training opportunities to enhance their chances of filling vital roles.
As experienced talent acquisition professionals, you will have invested in all channels at your disposal but traditionally the referral channel has largely been untapped due to its perceived overheads.
The benefits of turning your workforce into your recruitment eyes and ears has to be weighed against the cost of maintaining this process with an appropriate rewards programme.
All the stats indicate that referrals are by far the best source of talent acquisition in terms of long term employee retention, quality of acquisition and internal employee engagement.
It’s also the most cost effective, when managed smartly through technology enablement that will free up HR time to focus more on the candidate.
It’s time to look for solutions that improve outcomes without increasing workloads and there’s plenty out there. It’s simply being open to new solutions and remembering that doing anything that takes even a small step towards your goal is worth pursuing.
Can you afford not to look at every opportunity to improve talent acquisition?
Whether you are a Director of Global Talent, HR Manager, Finance director, Recruitment Lead or TA Specialist – The time to take action is now and the benefits of harnessing this huge potential is there for the taking! It simply requires focus on what can deliver the best and most cost effective results.