How to Increase Recruitment Effectiveness

How to Increase Recruitment Effectiveness






Keep your ear to the ground

This is the forth in a series of 5 blogs which look at increasing recruitment effectiveness and it focuses on informal candidate sources.  Keeping your ear to the ground and paying attention to word-of-mouth recommendations can be key to finding a solid-gold candidate.  Employees who may not be actively job hunting can often be recruited through informal recruitment channels.

Always pay attention to informal, personal recommendations - even if they don't come through anything like an official channel, and even if they don't tell you everything you'd want to know about the person being recommended. Of course you're bound to hear plenty of word of mouth recommendations which turn out to be useless or based on an incomplete understanding of what the open position requires - but this is hardly a big strain on your resources, and if these sorts of tip-offs result in you finding a top rate job candidate who might not otherwise have come to your attention, you might find that you've saved yourself a lot of time and effort.

Candidates that find their way to you from this sort of source can often not be active in the job market and thus not only do you have a chance to beat the competition to them, but they are also less likely to be looking at other opportunities so easier to attract.

One vital part of recruitment best practice is to be flexible aware that a good recommendation could come from anywhere - even from what seems like a very unlikely source.

And the final tip on this topic, is to say that even if the immediate recommendation does not prove right for your recruitment needs, they may know someone else or may be right for you at another time - so treat them with respect and add them to your recruitment pipeline network.

 

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