Most common recruiting challenges and how to overcome them

 


 

What is recruitment?

A process of searching for prospective employees and stimulating and encouraging them to apply for the jobs in the organization (Flippo).

 

Common recruiting challenges 

1. Attracting the right candidates 

   Choose the best person that can find at the time. The best way to hire the right people is often from a     smaller pipeline of more qualified talent.

2. Engaging qualified candidates 

    Candidates with hard-to-find skills are often considering several job offers at the same time. So need      to put extra effort to persuade passive candidates to choose the company over competitors.

3. Hiring fast 

   Hiring teams want to hire as fast as possible since vacant positions cost money and delay operations.  

4. Using data-driven recruitment 

   Companies can use recruitment data and metrics to  improve their recruiting process and make more       informed decisions.

5. Building a strong employer brand 

    A good employer brand helps to attract and engage better candidates.

6. Ensuring a good candidate experience 

    The way treat the candidates during the hiring process mirrors the way will treat them after hiring.          Positive candidate experiences can enhance employer brand. 

7. Recruiting fairly 

    Many companies struggle to attract and hire diverse candidates but unconscious biases may occur.          Hiring objectively helps to hire the best person for the job without biases.

8. Creating an efficient recruiting process 

    Hiring teams need to communicate fast and evaluate candidates easily.


The best recruitment methods to overcome common challenges

 

- Build a talent pool

 Talent pipelines are groups of candidates already engaged who can fill future positions  

  in the company.  This can help to reduce time to hire and recruiting costs.

- Look into past hiring processes for source new candidates.

  Past candidates are obviously qualified, while new ones will help you build a more comprehensive and diverse candidate database.

- Engage past and passive candidates.

  Let them determine how often communicate with them by sending useful content and information.

Train hiring teams 

- Instruct interviewers on how to prepare for interviews by giving them a checklist.

- Educating them on if how biases work.

- Arrange mock interviews.

- Disseminate recruiting resources.

 

Diversify recruiting strategies

 

- Using social media to post about jobs or promote the company.

 

- Display your culture, benefits and employee stories in your careers site to encourage more applicants.

 

- Attending job fairs and host recruiting events.

 

- Using tools like people search to source candidates based on location, skills and job-related criteria.

 

As a leading commercial bank, ABC bank PLC always uses above mentioned strategies to train hiring teams and the bank uses above diversified recruiting strategies to recruit the best candidates.


References

Bika,N.(2020)The most common recruiting challenges and how to overcome them.Inside HR,1-4.

 

 

 

Comments

  1. Sevani Ereporuwa10 April 2021 at 18:16

    Recruitment is an important operation in HRM, designed to maximize employee strength in order to meet the employer's strategic goals and objectives. Author has clearly explained the topic.

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  2. Ruwan Herath19 April 2021 at 04:00

    Recruitment is the process of finding & engaging the people the organization needs. Selection is that part of the recruitment process concerned with deciding which applicants or candidates should be appointed to jobs (Armstrong, 2014).

    Recruitment is a positive process of searching for prospective employees and stimulating them to apply for the jobs in the organization (Pawriya, 2016).

    Author has well described common recruitment challengers & how to overcome those.

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  3. MADHU MBA2 May 2021 at 10:36

    Recruiting employees is one of the big challenge which is face to the HR department. Its very difficult to choose most suitable person to the suitable position. As a banker, in my view point we cant recruit employees by doing only the interview system. This should be more practical and employers must consider about the concept of the applicant.

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