Effective recruitment process

Effective recruitment process

Recruitment is a challenging work, full of pressure… if you work as a recruiter you’ll know this far better than anyone else. Sales department keeps calling every day regarding their new hiring order, which is just placed last week, an urgent order to fill up 3 mechanics who quitted last week, so on and so on… it’s the matter of time, and time you don’t have it enough.

Besides, recruiters often ask “Am I doing good?”, How’d the managers tell about my recruitment works, will they tell me that I ain’t doing any good? Is there any complaints about my service, my deliverables …”. Your boss might ask and you might ask yourself how effective you’re doing with your recruitment or selection activities. If you’re an HR professional, this question being asked regularly and yearly, especially once you guys doing annual performance review.

Get back to the point, in order to measure how effective you’re working on recruitment job, there should be an understanding, mutual agreement in writing or verbally thought about what the expectations are, take into account the deadline of each assignment, how the staff turnover works … there suppose to be those criterias in the “expectation” scheme, this is just like setting an objective. Considering the final results, which is new and capable people you bring in onto the company workforce, considering the time you spent on each new recruits, the contribution they made after a year, the money you spent for news ads, or executive search service …. Always asking feedback from line managers regarding what you have done to help them to find out how you can make it better, faster and cheaper. Professional recruiters would see it this way: They’re selling stuff to sales department, marketing department … and all other departments within his company, with his great service, by providing the right people for the right job and within a reasonable time frame.

An effective recruitment process is there to ensure every party involved is happy, from the hiring manager to the final selected candidate, and even more importantly, it will help the organization achieve its business objectives. Basically, in order to achieve this making it an effective recruitment activitive, you’ll need: A recruitment process in place, make sure everyone follow strictly on the process, no shortcuts …, review and evaluate the process regularly, edit & adjust the process … and so on.