As unemployment continues to decrease companies are once again vying for the best and brightest candidates. No longer is the “same old, same old” cutting it in the recruitment world. Folks searching for a career aren’t content to spend hours, days and sometimes even weeks involved in endless Skype interviews, taking mind-numbing personality tests and enduring repetitive screening.
Many HR departments along with recruitment agencies recognized a need for change and have begun implementing new hiring practices starting with making the best use of technology, streamlining the entire hiring process and targeting the right candidates.
One of the hottest buzzwords in the recruitment world today is analytics, more specifically people analytics or talent analytics. Basically this is a new method of incorporating cutting edge technology to generate data that will assist in making better hiring decisions. Sophisticated techniques give hiring managers deeper insight into potential recruits. This data can then be utilized throughout the employee’s career for training, managing and developing.
HR recruiters are realizing they must step up their game when it comes to the entire hiring experience. Because of fierce competition for talented in-demand candidates staffing agencies today have an unprecedented incentive for jobseeker satisfaction when recruiting. Many are now rolling out efficient hiring systems which include streamlining repetitive interviews with numerous department heads, harnessing additional technological driven methods of interviewing and background checking and cutting down or eliminating those annoying (and often invasive) assessment tests.
Thanks to the worldwide web jobseekers can easily check out a potential employer with just a few mouse clicks. In fact, there are even sites where current and past employees are able to leave anonymous workplace reviews. And in today’s hiring climate with job seekers having a wide range of opportunities, recruitment marketing has become a necessity. Corporations are now realizing employer branding, social and mobile recruitment, content marketing, presence on numerous career websites, focusing on candidate relationships and broadcasting continuing employee nurturing and training must be utilized when it comes to talent acquisition.
Contact Staffing One Services today at 314-361-2444 and let our staffing professionals assist in your next job search.