Achieving Better Recruitment

Achieving Better Recruitment






Pick the safe bets

Gambling on job candidates and potential employees won't always be a winning move. Recruiting staff for vacant jobs is a difficult business and often the safest bet when it comes to somebody who wants to work for you is the best option.

We aren't recommending here that you be overly conservative and always play it safe but it is a sound business recruitment principle when looking to fill vacant job roles to seek out people with exact and precise experience. Candidates who have done or are doing the very same job within the same industry should be at the top of your list. If they've worked, or a working for a similar company in a not too different business culture then that's all the better too.

People looking for a career change are always eager to learn and take on new challenges but tried and tested candidates will save you money and time training a bright new face not to mention the process of acclimatisation. You don't want to spend months easing in a candidate who isn't necessarily going to be able to do the job.

Try to avoid multiple shifts for a candidate.  Let me explain: most candidates are applying for your job for a reason - they may want to jump up a level in the career ladder, they may want to broaden their experience in a different industry, they may want to change career paths.  Potentially one of these is fine (indeed the first two is fairly natural else you have to ask why they are interested in working for you) but taking on someone with two or more of these variables at once dramatically increases the risk and should be avoided.  Going for someone who is fundamentally seeking to change career paths is particularly risky - who knows if they will be any good at it, who knows if they will like it - they won't so you won't either.

So the message here is manage your risks when taking on new employees.  They will already face the challenges of a new company, keep the other challenges down to one or two else you will be increasing your recruitment risk to unacceptable levels.

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