Do your company need to recuit more employees because you are expanding your business? Here are some tips on recruitment:
1. Making compromises
You’ve prioritised your search criteria, and know exactly what you’re looking for in your “ideal” candidate, as well as your priority skills, now you need to set your tolerance levels; which skills you’re prepared to compromise on and by how much.
When you are selecting the one(s) you want to hire, you need to ensure you stick with the criteria you set out at the beginning of the process.
The salary level will be reduced if you are prepared to compromise on some of the secondary skills. Although you may not get your perfect candidate, but you'll certainly get someone who can do the job, probably to a more than acceptable level, and you should see a substantial cost saving.
2. Prioritise your search criteria
It’s very easy when writing a job spec, especially when you’ve always used agencies, to feel as though you should aim for the perfect person. It’s as if the “ideal candidate” will justify the massive fees! Lack of priority will lead to lots of unproductive interviews and large numbers of unsuitable CV's. It may also mean you start looking at more expensive candidates, purely because they have all the skills you’re looking for.
3. Turn to training
This is present in other forms within most organisations, maybe succession or workforce planning, or indeed personal or career development, and it can be used effectively when you’re actively looking to hire.
This is an area that may take more planning but can save you considerable amounts of money in the long term.
Put in its simplest form, the best way to save money on recruitment is not to recruit at all.
You may be surprised how much cheaper it is to train someone to a good level in a specific skill than to hire someone who already has that skill and has used it in a relevant project. This can be incorporated into your recruitment planning.
You can promote from within and train that employee to do the job you were going to recruit for. This may mean you need to recruit someone to replace that employee, and if this can’t be done internally, you may need to look externally, but it’s a lower level role, so will be cheaper.
4. Foreign worker
You may engage services from a foreign worker agency if you need to recruit workers from foreign country.