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What makes a recruiter successful? Providing top talent for the companies they scout candidates for. It’s no secret the job has its ups and downs, just like any other profession, but when it comes to the recruiting industry, it can be very overwhelming sometimes. These professionals have many demanding tasks to fulfill and sometimes barely no time to do them. So, what’s the best solution? Making the best out of the time they actually have by efficiently managing and prioritizing their tasks:
1. Recruiting culture: Get everyone in the office trained and involved in the whole hiring process to properly and effectively interview candidates. Asking for the management’s opinion related to the profile they’re looking for—or who their ideal candidate is—might also work to your advantage in terms of saving precious time when starting the recruitment process.
The idea is to get everyone involved and for them to care enough to actually make an effort when it comes to interviewing potential employees, so that, in the end, you can provide them with the ideal candidate.
2. Build a great referral program and improve your employer brand: According to Undercover Recruiter, employees who were referred have a retention rate of 46%; 13% more than a candidate scouted from a career site. When done properly, referring is one of the most effective methods of hiring. You can basically turn your current employees into recruiters and, let’s get real, who better to recommend the company and explain what the opening is all about than a person already working there?
However, in order for referrals to really work, you need to make the effort to build a great employer brand because if you treat your employees badly, do you really think they’re going to bring more people in? Asking the marketing department for help to make the company look and sound like an amazing place to work at can also make the difference when it comes to improving your employer brand.
3. Stay on top of new trends and strategies: Find out what strategies and technologies the competition is using and evaluate if they can be as effective for you. Try to stay up-to-date on the industry’s latest trends while also repeating what has already worked perfectly for your company in the past. The best way to know if what you’re currently doing is working or not is by constantly tracking and analyzing recruitment metrics, this way, you can eliminate or readjust the strategies with the worst results and improve the ones that are actually good.
4. Take advantage of every piece of technology you can get your hands on: Interviews and tests can take up a lot of a recruiter’s time, so technology can really come in handy during the hiring process. Video interviews can be a lifesaver when it comes to screening applicants; you can even record the interview to later take a second look at your favorite candidates.
Selecting the perfect ATS is key to making recruiters’ tasks more time efficient. An ATS can actually make or break any recruitment system. Nowadays, there’s software that can basically do the job for you: from taking the jobs directly from you career site and posting them to a job search engine to providing all the statistics related to your recruiting campaign. Can it really get any easier than that? Learn how neuvoo can help you achieve this and so much more.
5. Organization is key: Prioritizing your tasks and managing your time are key steps to making your days more efficient. Set response times for every step of the hiring process. For example, when you post a job ad, give yourself a period of 3-4 business days max to respond to them. Do the same after the interview and when you’re ready to make a job offer. For this last step of the process, make sure to be quick—you don’t want to lose potential candidates due to timing.
Remember a recruiter’s work is measured by quality and not quantity—at least in a perfect world—, so don’t focus on filling your days with tasks that you’re probably never going to get to anyways. Try to always set your priorities and arrange your schedule at the end or at the beginning of the week, that way, you’ll be more organized in case something else comes up. Just make sure to separate the really important stuff from the tasks that don’t actually deserve your whole attention.
Another great time-saving technique is adopting an “inbox zero” policy in order to always stay on top of your tasks and so you never miss important emails. This technique may seem impossible to achieve at times, but there are countless apps that can help you categorize your emails and organize your schedule.
Now it’s really up to each one of you to apply these strategies to manage your working time more efficiently and put that recruiting mind to work!
Vanessa Fardi
Digital Copy Editor
1. Recruiting culture: Get everyone in the office trained and involved in the whole hiring process to properly and effectively interview candidates. Asking for the management’s opinion related to the profile they’re looking for—or who their ideal candidate is—might also work to your advantage in terms of saving precious time when starting the recruitment process.
The idea is to get everyone involved and for them to care enough to actually make an effort when it comes to interviewing potential employees, so that, in the end, you can provide them with the ideal candidate.
2. Build a great referral program and improve your employer brand: According to Undercover Recruiter, employees who were referred have a retention rate of 46%; 13% more than a candidate scouted from a career site. When done properly, referring is one of the most effective methods of hiring. You can basically turn your current employees into recruiters and, let’s get real, who better to recommend the company and explain what the opening is all about than a person already working there?
However, in order for referrals to really work, you need to make the effort to build a great employer brand because if you treat your employees badly, do you really think they’re going to bring more people in? Asking the marketing department for help to make the company look and sound like an amazing place to work at can also make the difference when it comes to improving your employer brand.
3. Stay on top of new trends and strategies: Find out what strategies and technologies the competition is using and evaluate if they can be as effective for you. Try to stay up-to-date on the industry’s latest trends while also repeating what has already worked perfectly for your company in the past. The best way to know if what you’re currently doing is working or not is by constantly tracking and analyzing recruitment metrics, this way, you can eliminate or readjust the strategies with the worst results and improve the ones that are actually good.
4. Take advantage of every piece of technology you can get your hands on: Interviews and tests can take up a lot of a recruiter’s time, so technology can really come in handy during the hiring process. Video interviews can be a lifesaver when it comes to screening applicants; you can even record the interview to later take a second look at your favorite candidates.
Selecting the perfect ATS is key to making recruiters’ tasks more time efficient. An ATS can actually make or break any recruitment system. Nowadays, there’s software that can basically do the job for you: from taking the jobs directly from you career site and posting them to a job search engine to providing all the statistics related to your recruiting campaign. Can it really get any easier than that? Learn how neuvoo can help you achieve this and so much more.
5. Organization is key: Prioritizing your tasks and managing your time are key steps to making your days more efficient. Set response times for every step of the hiring process. For example, when you post a job ad, give yourself a period of 3-4 business days max to respond to them. Do the same after the interview and when you’re ready to make a job offer. For this last step of the process, make sure to be quick—you don’t want to lose potential candidates due to timing.
Remember a recruiter’s work is measured by quality and not quantity—at least in a perfect world—, so don’t focus on filling your days with tasks that you’re probably never going to get to anyways. Try to always set your priorities and arrange your schedule at the end or at the beginning of the week, that way, you’ll be more organized in case something else comes up. Just make sure to separate the really important stuff from the tasks that don’t actually deserve your whole attention.
Another great time-saving technique is adopting an “inbox zero” policy in order to always stay on top of your tasks and so you never miss important emails. This technique may seem impossible to achieve at times, but there are countless apps that can help you categorize your emails and organize your schedule.
Now it’s really up to each one of you to apply these strategies to manage your working time more efficiently and put that recruiting mind to work!
Vanessa Fardi
Digital Copy Editor