The global labor force provides employers with a number of benefits such as access to a larger candidate audience and options for hiring remote employees at competitive wages. However, it isn’t without its challenges. For instance, today that employers target has changed dramatically. The world is your platform and tapping into the talent of the global workforce becomes important.
So, it stands to reason that recruitment strategies must be improved as well. There are 3 ways to ensure that you source the right candidates from the right talent pool:
- Be sure you target the right talent pool – the old “throw something against the wall until it sticks” mentality is not going to work when it comes to recruiting the best talent. Acquiring the best talent requires finding the right audience or talent pool. It may be the job boards for some employers while others might use social media platforms. If you do use social media, make sure that you’ve optimized your recruitment strategy based on your preferred target audience.
- Sell candidates on your company’s mission and vision – unless you have the time to waste trying to outbid other companies in wage warfare, the best plan of attack is selling your company’s mission and vision. Whenever you interview a candidate, be sure to promote your corporate dream in hopes of finding the right one for the job. Employer branding is a very effective recruitment tool and will help you communicate your company mission and vision to the candidates you attract, especially if they’re a good fit for your organization. Using our platform allows employers to host a ‘meet and greet’, or workshop to allow job seekers to get to know your organization more intimately before they apply for the position.
- The best strategy for sourcing job candidates is to involve a team in the hiring process – although an HR individual will make the final hiring decision, teams can help trimming the number of candidates down to the top 3, 4, or 5 individuals. Remember, each of those team members took the same journey before you hired them. Thus, they will likely find talented candidates for your company in the process. Offering your team virtual access to pre-screen candidates through the platform is another efficient advantage that reduces time and cost to hire.
These candidates could be contacts they met at the same previous job or fellow employees from that job. They might even have been college roommates at one time. The key is to create an environment where you can encourage team members to make hiring recommendations as well as one that pays attention to employee referrals. In so doing, you’ll help the team grow and increase its unity.
If you’re tired of jumping from one virtual recruitment platform to another and are looking for a more cost-effective, efficient means for targeting the best talent, Premier Virtual has the software you’re searching for. Call us today at (561) 717-9717.