An Effective Recruiting Plan [Excerpt]

Looking for talent? The smartest employers, who hire the best people, recruit a pre-qualified candidate pool of potential employees before they need to fill a job. Or, as Harvey Mackay, well-known, irreverent author and speaker, says about networking, Dig Your Well, Before You’re Thirsty.

You can develop relationships with potential candidates long before you need them. These ideas will also help you in recruiting a large pool of candidates when you have a current position available.

The earlier you adopt these practices, the better your organization will do in the ongoing war for talent. Many American Companies are experiencing an apparent tough competition for securing needed skilled employees. However, you will experience outright wars for talent as the baby boomer generation retires, especially in the technology and trade fields.

Table of Contents

An Effective Recruiting Plan is the 1st Step in Empowerment 1
Best Recruiting Practices 1
Tap Your Employee Networks in Recruiting Candidates 1
Take Advantage of Your Industry Contacts, Association Memberships, and Trade Groups for Recruiting Candidates 2
Utilize your local Chamber of Commerce 3
Use Your Web Site for Recruiting Candidates 3
Maintain Frequent Contact with Interested Candidates 4
Become an Employer of Choice that naturally attracts Desirable Candidates 4
Recruit Using the Internet 5
Referrals 5
Referral Recruiting 6
Other Ideas 7
Show Off Company Culture 7
Look Forward 8
Use Marketing Strategies 8
Need Help? Look Behind Bars 8
A Proper Job Description is Critical to the Recruiting as well as the On-boarding Process 8
Hire for Talent over Experience 8
Ditch the traditional interview 9
Give your hiring process a personal touch 9

To be continued…

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