New Year, New Recruitment Process!

That January reset feeling... Are you a business that is going to recruit this year (whether it is for growth or to replace)? When was the last time you assessed how good your business is at this? Chances are that you may lose the best talent because your process isn't great. And if I was a business resetting its recruitment in 2025, this is what I’d do:

𝗛𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗮 𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲𝘀 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘆𝗼𝘂

Simply treat people well, show how important this recruitment is to you, and drive the process efficiently.

So often a company's process is slow, ill-thought out and impersonal. What makes this worse is what it's doing to your reputation: candidates, recruiters and your competition will be talking about you (and not in a good way).

𝗜𝘁’𝘀 𝗮 𝘁𝘄𝗼-𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻

Many leaders who are interviewing for their team often only think about what candidates say and how they perform (in their subjective view). They rarely think about what they can do to create the right setting and ask the most intelligent questions to the get the best out of candidates.

Sell! An interview should be 50% of the time learning about them and 50% you selling you.

𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗱 (𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗼𝗻) 𝗴𝗵𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴

It's simply not acceptable.

If you interview a candidate, give them constructive feedback. It doesn't have to be chapter and verse. Anything is better than nothing.

𝗢𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿 𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗹𝘆

Get it done in a week, no excuses. You will lose them if you get this wrong.

𝗢𝗻𝗯𝗼𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳

Remember how important this recruitment was at the beginning of the process! Make them feel welcome and prepare what they need to get started quickly.

Good talent is out there. You just need to find it and be better than your competition at attracting it.

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Simon Owens, Director, Kaizen Talent Solutions simon@kaizen-ts.co.uk