Recruitment and Selection Strategies for Modern Workforce

 

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Time to recruit! Have you laid down the strategies yet? NO? Just sit for a while and think of the strategies that work best for the Modern Workforce.

If you are an HR and looking for candidates for your organization, you have come to the right place to know more of modern strategies and for recruitment and selection procedures in modern times. While you might know the A-Z about hiring and have your own built in strategies to follow, every strategy needs to be  upgraded with time and situation. You can only be more successful in your work if you can upscale yourself with time. And modern times need drastic up-scaling from those age old, rigid and traditional strategies, companies used to follow for hiring and recruitment till now.

Gone are the days when a job opening used to get overloaded with applicants. The last two years have seen a drastic change related to workspace. People nowadays are opting more for remote jobs where their physical presence to the office is no longer required. A laptop, an internet connection with a great speed and you are good to go to earn sumptuous even from a distance. And what more! The employees are placing their own terms and conditions to the HR and organizations, something that was considered to be a dream five years back.

And with this drastic change, the strategies and techniques of recruitment needs to be honed as well. You can no longer hold the upper hand when it comes to modern day recruitment. With freelancing gaining momentum, you as a HR might know how tough a job it is in recent times to hire a skilled professional for desk jobs. Certain fields and industries nowadays have more vacancies than skilled applicants to choose from. In this scenario, you as an HR need to upgrade your own techniques for recruitment and selection.

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Pay more attention to the candidate's needs:

Analyze and realize exactly what is going to push them to look forward to working with you. Do they need a more affluent salary? Or are they looking for conveyance facilities? Do they seem to be happy with what you have to offer? Read their mind and then lay your terms that can meet what you can offer and what they are comfortable to accept.

Develop good communication with the applicants

Rudeness is an attitude that no one tolerates. If you show your arrogance at the first stage of relationship building, it can create a negative impact about you and the whole working ambiance into their mind. They may decline working for you and you might lose a talent that could have proved to be highly skillful and profitable for you. No one wants to lose a good employee. And no one wants to work under an adamant team. Check your attitude and create a communication that will only benefit you in the long run.

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Opt for a personalized approach

Develop a rapport and give special attention to their expectations. Be clear about your offerings too. The more analytical you are about your candidates, the more it is going to be lucrative for you in the long run.

Be Honest

Be more specific and honest about the applicant’s salary and the perks you offer. No one is interested in your preconceived salary scale these days. Modern workforce are more open to negotiations and so should be your paradigm as well. Add to this, the perks you will offer is going to compel them to choose a full time desk job rather than being a freelancer and command their own terms.

Ask interesting interview questions

Do  not stick to those age old boring questions. Be more crisp and variant in preparing these questionnaires for applicants. Try to get to know how they can bring about a substantial change and improve your company if given a chance. Weigh their skills and knowledge but with a more practical and advanced approach. You should always remember that it is not just you evaluating the candidate as a potential employee, it is also them evaluating you as a potential employer as well.

 

Being strategically empowered and updated will contribute towards your goal to build a good, skillful and dedicated team of employees. Never forget the dictum that “your first impression is your last impression”

Buckle up HRs and think of adopting these strategies to employ the best from the lot and in return, be the best employer these modern workforce can ever fathom!