This Is How Recruiters Must Prepare For January 2021

With December being a bit slow for recruiters, there’s essentially not much to do around this time of the year. Most candidates wait till January to search for new job roles and there’s very negligible recruiting that ideally happens. Everything is beginning to look a lot like Christmas and New Year is just around the corner. But things being lazy, recruiters can actually make more of the free time at hand because honestly speaking, this Holiday Season is not the usual one that you spend with friends and family, with Covid-19 restrictions still in place everywhere.

So, Recruit CRM is presenting 5 such essential things recruiters can do this December for a relaxed January in 2021.

5 Important Things Recruiters Should Do This December For A Stress-Free January

While still enjoying those freshly baked cookies at home, you can jot down these important points before entering one of the most important months in a few days time.

1. Create A Solid Plan For January

Being one of the best months of the year for recruitment, your #MondayBlues will start hitting you in the right place if you don’t have a clear-cut plan. Imagine you’re back after Christmas and New Years with no plan in hand in your office. How messy would that be? While the entire ‘new year, new vibe’ thing is pretty cool, recruiting can’t get thwarted.

Here are some of the basics that recruitment professionals would truly want in place:

• Make sure you have approval on important decisions from your hiring manager
• Make sure all your marketing strategies and ads are in place so that they can just start rolling out as soon as you reopen after the Holidays
• Crucial job descriptions should already be summarized and written so that you don’t spend the initial few days in crafting that
• Evaluate whether you have the right Applicant Tracking System (ATS) to screen CVs as soon as those job applications start to flood in

In the event that you get into the workplace in January and take nearly three weeks to concoct a strong plan, at that point you will miss the surge and conceivably some extraordinary candidates too!

2. Stop Yourself From Panic Hiring

December, being a very slow month, it’s highly possible that you won’t find suitable or remarkable candidates for your clients and companies. This, however, doesn’t mean that recruiters will indulge in panic-hiring. It’s not something new how making a wrong hiring decision can affect a recruitment agency. So it’s definitely better if recruiters delay their work till the New Years than make a wrong hiring decision.

3. Stay In Touch With Your Candidates

Your candidates can be either in the pre-hiring phase or someone who has accepted their offer letter already. As a recruiter, you should be responsible for touching base with them, at least twice — once, before Christmas and second, after Christmas. The Holiday Season is indeed a time when nostalgia and festive feelings are at its peak. Staying in touch over a phone call or a short email exchange can help bring value. This will also be a great way of reminding them why they want to join the company you’re hiring for. Exchanging Season’s greetings during this point of the year can excite a loyal feeling among these candidates making them want to stick to your company.

4. Develop Your Employer Brand Effectively

The best time to stay on top of your game is during the Christmas and New Years when you can essentially grab this opportunity to showcase how fun and friendly you and your entire team are!

Here are some of the tips you can try using:

• Use your social media handles to showcase how your company or recruitment agency is celebrating this Holiday Season
• Send customised Season’s Greetings emails to all your clients and candidates
• Write and repurpose relevant content on your blog page
• Ask your colleagues to share fun videos and text messages to bring about a strong message on your employer brand.

With people bookmarking a lot during this time of the month, you can actually make sure candidates remain attracted to your brand by keeping these above points in mind.

5. Review The Entire Process

While waiting for January to make a new beginning, recruiters can make good use of this time by taking stock and reviewing the candidate pool. Which automation tools, job boards, social media channels are working for you? If you’re using a recruitment agency, are they appropriate for you?

Take a meticulous look at all of your recruitment metrics to make sure that you start off 2021 on a prolific note. Don’t forget to tell Recruit CRM, how you’re planning to make your January stress-free!

Originally published at https://recruitcrm.io.