Quality of Hire
And Crosby Stills and Nash
Hiring Risk-Takers
Why is it a reward?
Talent Acquisition
Using Social Media
Recruiting has evolved
Pre-Employment
Assessments
12 guidelines companies
need to follow
Quality of Hire
And Crosby Stills and Nash
Hiring Risk-Takers
Why is it a reward?
Talent Acquisition
Using Social Media
Recruiting has evolved
Pre-Employment
Assessments
12 guidelines companies
need to follow
Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) continues to be a hot topic in the marketplace and according to HROA and Everest Group, it is growing at a 12% pace. Today, this industry segment is roughly $1.5 billion. So, what is continuing to cause the stir? Certainly the economy turning around and the pickup in employment are contributing factors. Also, the shortage of recruiters and the shortage of candidate talent for select disciplines are major causes.
Even if you’re not old enough to remember Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Famers Crosby Stills and Nash, you’ve heard their songs. “Teach Your Children,” “Suite Judy Blue Eyes” and “Marrakesh Express” are classics by any definition.
Risk – it’s the four-letter word upon which every successful company is built. Without risk, there can be no reward. Every successful employer knows the importance of taking calculated, educated risks where the upsides outweigh the downsides. But, when it comes to hiring employees, many employers may be tempted to play it safe, hiring employees who keep their heads down, noses to the grindstone and don’t make any waves. In the long run, however, these are not the employees who will make a dramatic impact on their business.
What used to be a world consumed by job boards, applications, automation and job hunters is now a place of social recruiting – one where referrals, analytics and integrated recruiting rule. Candidate expectations have shifted drastically, too. Today, 47% of workers were born after 1980. And, by 2025, more than 75% of workers will be of the “social media generation” and will have grown up with real-time social communication as the norm. Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, Facebook, Skype, YouTube and other apps, social networks and websites have reinvented the way that job seekers search for and apply to jobs.
Pre-employment assessments add great value because they help employers make predictions about the candidate’s ability to perform the job, fit in to the role, and motivation to do the work. Assessments are appealing because they allow the company to remove some of the guessing that may be inherent in selection processes. That is, assessments provide data that can be used to assist the organizations and hiring managers in making the right hiring decisions.
A video interviewing platform offers interviewing solutions for your company. They will set up the technologies needed for the video interview to take place. The candidate will only require a webcam and a working connection to the internet. A video interviewing platform will be able to modernize your recruitment process as well. These companies can offer evaluators which can give you second opinions on candidates. Their opinions can help you resolve the tough choices. Most of all, a video interviewing platform will be able to screen the candidates who have applied. They can filter the applicants and forward you with only those who have the necessary qualities and skills that you want.
The facts are alarming. Research shows that this year, for every one person entering the workforce, two workers will leave. By 2020, The Conference Board of Canada predicts there will be a shortage of 1 million skilled workers. The Conference Board of Canada also reports that "the war for talent is fierce, and is likely to become more so with the massive number of employees retiring in the next five years. Top organizations are moving beyond the vanilla 'employer of choice' concept to a more rigorous strategy of attracting and retaining the right employees through branding."
Is your company struggling to remain an attractive employer against your larger competitors? Even if your small business doesn’t have the same budget to provide employees with the same pay and stock options as a Fortune 100 company, you can still make a winning appeal to the best, brightest and most driven talent. As an HR professional you can help make your company more attractive to the most desirable talent by following four important tips.
As I discussed in a previous blog, temporary staffing is at an all-time high. The American Staffing Association (ASA) says that the staffing industry puts as many as 11 million people to work on a contract and temporary basis each year.
What is an employer’s most business-critical corporate process? At or near the top of this list has to be hiring employees that deliver more value to their role and company than they cost to their employer. Employees bring in revenue, rescue a customer, make your products, deliver goods, and sustain your profitability going forward. Identifying the right people, and avoiding the wrong ones, is an imperative to business sustainability