With the ongoing pandemic season, hybrid and remote-based employment are gaining traction amongst organizations, making a part of the modern workforce requirement.
Human resources (HR) professionals are seen to implement new ways of selection and recruitment strategies to accommodate the right candidate at the right time.
Being unable to fill a vacancy, especially when project deadlines are around the corner, will incur a loss and reputation of an organization.
Infusing these strategies in your recruitment and selection process can help you win the hearts of the modern workforce:
1. Personalized Job Environment
With many organizations open to hybrid and remote job profiles, it is becoming easy for candidates to go to companies they like. Now, in order to stay competitive as an HR, you need to think of ways that can match your ideal candidate’s job working environment requirements (For ex. allowing a 24*7 working environment) and encourage them to post their job applications too.
Mentioning job flexibility in the job description can be an excellent approach to attracting today’s modern workforce.
2. Keep the interview short and more technical
In the fast-paced world that we are living in, candidates would not like to speak about the same information that is already mentioned in their resume, during an interview.
Therefore, personal background verification is important, however, it can be shortened to the most important ones that are actually needed (For ex. Asking to elaborate more on their skills contributed in their past organizations vs. focusing on knowing the reason for the job gaps, or job change)
A technical round of an interview keeps a candidate encouraged to boast about their skills while helping you as an HR to take recruitment decisions based on their knowledge and if it could fill the current job vacancy of the organization.
3. Don’t compromise salary offerings with the flexibility
With many organizations offering remote and hybrid job work environments, negotiating a candidate’s desired salary package just because your organization is allowing a flexible work environment, may or may not work.
The modern workforce will be encouraged to join an organization that offers a work-life balance without having to negotiate on the salary package they are looking for, along with other non-financial rewards including family health insurance coverage.
4. Introduce the candidate to teammates and stakeholders before the joining date
The modern-aged workforce would like to look up to colleagues not just as teammates but as family members whom they would communicate with on a regular basis. With no proper introduction to the organization’s stakeholders and teammates, the new candidate will be clueless, and may lead to larger communication gaps.
Organizing a casual video meet post office hours can help the new candidate know the personnel as well as the professional side of the team members and engage confidently on the first day as well as the remaining days when working with your organizations.
Take away
The win-win situation in this era of a fast-paced hiring environment is to be clear about how can you be the best choice for your potential candidates.
With the above strategies, you will also need to ensure to treat your potential candidates like friends that you are inviting into your family. Then, you will be amazed at how easy it becomes to select and recruit the right talents from across the globe.