My Ex-Hiring Manager Did A Merry Dance!
This was quite a heartwarming story when we first heard it. Someone from our team had mentioned this a while back. He had said how recruiters often underestimate the worth or benefit that a new employee can bring to the table. He also mentioned how consciously trying to understand the merit of a potential employee can be one of the most salutary practices that a recruiter can practice. A lot of startups are always in a hurry when they’re onboarding new candidates but this is where they’re going massively wrong.
So, the question is why did this so-called team member’s ex-hiring manager do a merry dance once upon a time? Here’s the answer for you.
He Avoided Common Hiring Blunders!
This person we’re talking about was an integral part of a group of recruiters. He was supposedly the so-called cap of the team, often guiding the other members how to go about. Their team coordination was top-notch and extremely professional that basically led to the success that we’re coming to in some time.
1. Great Applicants Equals Great Customers
The plan was to make the candidate experience similar to that of a customer experience. Just like they were treating their marketing and sales funnel, the basic idea here was to provide the same for their candidates. And guess what it resulted into? More engagement, information and transformation.
2. Hired Freelancers Wherever Required
They shortlisted roles that actually didn’t require a full-time fill-up. After a lot of trials and errors, their team came up with a bunch of freelancers who actually had the passion to work and delivered output on time. A few of the other recruiters were actually quite shocked at this when they understood how they often make the mistake of hiring a full-time employee when all they really need is a freelancer.
3. Paid Major Heed To Content Marketing
Employer branding and social media recruiting are significant in all aspects. CEOs, marketing leaders and hiring managers (by the end of 2021) want to secure not only their long-term recruiting needs but also build their employer brand globally and locally and differentiate themselves from their competitors. The above will not be possible if professional technical writing and brand-favoured content are not produced. These days practising inbound marketing and content repurposing is easier and inexpensive with so many publishing tools available online like Medium, Quora, Twitter, Facebook and even LinkedIn articles! So that’s exactly what the team did. Sharing knowledge to attract potential clients and candidates is one of the best practices which any company built on the foundations of this planet can possibly do.
4. Used A Mobile-Friendly Application Process
They very well comprehended the importance of active sites and a mobile-friendly experience for candidates nowadays. And with at least 45% of job seekers using mobile devices for their search and job application process, it’s only understandable why not only this team but most of the recruiters nowadays are opting for it.
5. Started Profiling The Best Employees
This is something extraordinary that he and his team did. They had profiled the best employees of all the clients that they had previously hired for and created an exceptional strategy. They took down points like what made that candidate special? Was it field expertise? Was it the zeal, hunger and drive? Or was it rare intellectual energy? This team of recruiters next went on their hiring spree while keeping the above characteristics as the basis on which they would hire and guess what? They ended up hiring some of the best possible employees for their clients.
So Why the Happy Dance At All?
The person we are talking about here invited his boss (now his ex-hiring manager) for an impromptu presentation they were conducting with all the other recruiters in the company. The team presented everything in detail about how they had managed to go beyond his expectation by implementing the right recruitment strategies above and the most unexpected thing happened in the end. His ex-hiring manager did a merry dance and patted his back saying, “I can now let you go for sure.”
His team members had then come to know that this person had actually mailed his resignation letter a month back and this was a parting gift from him to his team members and boss! A rather thoughtful cheer to the best recruitment practices and more to avoiding mistakes in the future.
