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Thursday, 19 March 2015

Preparing Your Team Statically With The Right Recruitment Strategy

When you are investing on the Human Resource Solution of your company, it is very important to make sure that it will help you to obtain the best results. This you will be able to obtain only by preparing your team with the right recruitment strategy. When you are focusing on your recruitment team, it is very important to make sure that you are providing the best technologic enhancements as well as system improvements for the team for screening, interviewing, building long-term candidate lineups. This will help you to create turning and career opportunities easily. This will not only help you to entice the job candidates, but also retain your existing employees. As the marketing is facing a very tough competition especially when it comes to recruitment, it is also very important to use short-term tactics as well as quick hits to assist the recruiting process.
Using the right recruitment methods and strategies will also help you to maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of your company. It is also very important prepare your team with long term as well as short-term strategies. The recruitment process of your company should also be capable of keeping the employees once they are hired. Therefore, it is very important to pick the right candidates, which you feel could make some changes in your company. There are different recruitment programs and methods you can use for improving your HR department. Below mentioned is one such best strategy you can opt for:
Employee Referral Programs:
This strategy is considered as a cost-effective recruitment tool that you can use in your company. If you are planning and implementing this strategy in the right way, you will be able to improve your HR department within a short span of time. If you are spending a small amount on the employee referral program, you will be able to obtain huge returns from it. As you will be paying money to the employees or candidates for the offers they give you, even they will be interested in providing you the referrals. This will also help your current employees to develop a good and effective work habit.
As Human Resource department plays an important role in the development of your company, it is very important to have some safeguards and guidelines that will be able to support you and your team even in the toughest situations. This you will be able to obtain by implementing the right recruitment plan in the initial stages.
In case, if you are not able to develop good recruitment strategies by yourself, taking the assistance of experienced professionals is very important. However, when looking for these experts, it is very important to make sure that they will understand your real needs and provide you with the best solutions.
In case, if you are still a start up company in the market, using the right recruitment strategies and solutions is very important for your company's growth, especially in this competitive world.

Tuesday, 17 March 2015

MLM Recruiting - The Number 1 MLM Recruiting Strategy of Top Earners

With MLM recruiting, there is a right way and a wrong way. However, most people are taught the old way. They've been instructed how to pitch and SELL their opportunity primarily to their friends and family members, then to anyone who comes within 3 feet from of them, and then to call and pitch biz opp leads...
However, the problem is people don't like to be sold. These MLM recruiting strategies no longer get results for most networkers; your prospects (or suspects in most cases) can feel you trying to pitch them a hundred miles away, & as soon as they get that feeling that they're about to get sold they immediately close up. To make matters worse, word spreads quickly to all your friends and family of your slimy, hyped-up attempt to basically "make money off them" - & no one wants to look like a sucker.
Now this is not to say that you will never be able to talk to your friends and family or business associates about your business. But you have to first get rid of the fear of failure and desperation that makes you seem needy. Successful MLM recruiting doesn't work like that.
Let's change gears for a minute. Have you ever noticed that as soon as you don't need something, there it is? For example, have you ever been desperate for money and no company or person will lend it to you? Then think back on another time when you had money, and all of a sudden there are ample opportunities to borrow. This isn't a coincidence, this is a fundamental law of nature.
To achieve massive success with your MLM recruiting, you must put into play the law of attraction - NOT the law of revulsion! Put yourself in your prospects' shoes: would you be interested if someone was trying to hype you up and sell you? Are you attracted to them, or maybe even a little repulsed? Most people would be repulsed!
Now let's try a different approach: suppose you know a friend who buys a new car. Then a week later, a 2nd new car. Then you see he's having a swimming pool put in a month later, then the front yard gets completely new landscaping... How much longer until you are ATTRACTED to that person to find out what they're up to? Now of course, I'm not saying you need to go out and buy a bunch of stuff to attract people, but the fact is like attracts like. Success attracts more success, money attracts more money and so on.
Here's how to explode your MLM recruiting: stop trying to pitch and sell! People may like to buy, but they DON'T like to be sold! The key is they have to first sell THEMSELF on YOU. It's important that they like, trust and respect you both personally and in business.
How does that work? Well, you concentrate on the needs of your prospects: what answers can you provide to their problems. Find the answers to their problem and give them the information. This process creates trust and builds a relationship (and builds up your brand and promotes you as a leader in their eyes). Then over time as your prospects glean more and more value from you, you become the expert due to all the incredible help you've shared with them. Now they'll start listening to your recommendations and start buying from you - even asking you what they should buy. Suddenly people are attracted to you, they want to follow and join you in whatever you are doing.
And guess how your mindset changes? The fear disappears, your confidence oozes out, and now instead of scarcity your world is one of abundance. MLM recruiting is easy when you become a top earner and master attraction marketing.

Dynamic Recruiting Strategies

The best way to start is with a thorough review of the recruitment strategy.
Why does recruitment strategy matter? Despite today's persistently high unemployment figures many employers complain about the dearth of qualified candidates. Every job opening is flooded with applicants but too many are lacking the necessary skills. This is true in the public as well as the private sector. Considering that the government has always had trouble competing with the higher paying private sector this recent turn of events is not exactly encouraging. Anyone who is in charge of hiring for government (or dependent on their success) needs to thinking about game plan now.
A good strategy needs to have defined goals and a clear plan that lays out the steps necessary to achieve them. It should contain benchmarks and milestones so that management can know if they are on target or if some corrective action needs to be taken. The plan needs to take a holistic view of the employee life-cycle. You can meet all your recruitment goals and still find yourself short of critical skills due to early employee departures. When you take a step back and look at the big picture, meeting recruitment goals is a component of the larger goal of maintaining a workforce equipped to provide the level of service promised to the constituents. With that in mind you need to start incorporating retention into your plan.

In today's tough market, a solid recruiting plan may not be enough. Many recruiters are using the same old methods to find talent amongst a pool of talent that is changing rapidly. If your text advertisement is not working you could try video or a podcast. Don't wait for the candidates to come to you; you should be actively searching the online professional networks. The perfect candidate for your new position may be the one who just barely got beat out for an older opening.
Government needs to be taking active steps today to get ready for the hiring needs tomorrow and beyond and one critical component of the overall plan is a solid talent recruitment plan.

Sunday, 15 March 2015

Recruiting Strategies That Colleges Use To Attract New Students

High school students are taught early on that the college admissions process is highly competitive. Applicants attempt to achieve the highest grades and accolades possible in order to edge out the competition. What is not always made clear during this time is that colleges are just as eager to attract new students to their programs. Schools all over the country go to great lengths to develop student recruitment strategies that showcase the academic, athletic and campus programs available at a particular university. There are many recruiting strategies that colleges are using to reach the next generation of graduates.
Social Media
College recruiting strategies are designed to attract the most promising students directly from high school. This has resulted in extensive use of social media for student recruitment. Universities all around the world have established a social media presence, where interested people are able to examine the online personality of the institution within a familiar and comfortable environment. Some colleges also send out regular updates so that potential applicants are able to remain engaged with the sports, academic achievements and changes that are taking place on campus before ever being accepted.
Online College Fairs
The Internet has allowed universities to extend the reach of student recruitment efforts. A popular recruiting strategy now involves online virtual college fairs that are accessible to anyone with a computer from the comfort of home. These cost-efficient fairs make everything from basic information and brochures to promotional videos available to interested students. There is also an option that will connect a person at home with a live recruiter who is able to answer questions about life at the school, athletics and academic programs. Online fairs have increased the popularity of schools that have not traditionally had national student recruitment programs.
Scholarships
One of the most effective recruiting strategies that most colleges and universities use after finding talented students is to offer scholarships to help with the cost of books, tuition or campus housing. These are normally reliant on maintaining good grades and participating in activities until graduation from high school. There are also some schools that offer scholarships based on specialized testing or essay questions.
Off-Campus Events
A very traditional, but still widely used recruiting strategy, is to hold off-campus events. There are many different types of events, including fun informal gatherings, serious presentations in a hotel or question-and-answer sessions in a local high school. Recruiters for universities that have a specific focus such as fine arts or engineering sometimes give personal recruitment presentations at magnet schools that are directed at classrooms full of students who have already started down a particular career path.
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Saturday, 14 March 2015

Social Recruitment Strategy 101 - LinkedIn

Let's look at a little refresher before we delve into the specifics. LinkedIn is a professional networking tool that Recruiters can use to search for, connect with and screen candidates. You are also able to advertise your company by using a company profile page as well as your job content and even display advertising. The great thing about LinkedIn is that it was specifically created with the purpose of being about business and professional interaction, therefore making it the strong platform to find the right people. By integrating this into your Social Recruitment strategy, it can cut out a lot of effort and assist the process along.
It's clear that LinkedIn has massive appeal, and can be the best resource in making the connections that lead you to qualified candidates, but let's break LinkedIn down and look at it as a possible component to your Recruitment Strategy. First thing's first, you as Recruiter as discussed in last month's article, needed to ask the 4 relevant questions about whether a Social Recruitment strategy was something needed.
To begin the process of setting out your strategy you might want to start by asking the following questions:
1. Are you wanting to build a Talent Pool of quality CV's?
2. Do you want to build a community with which you can interact and share information?
3. Do you want or need Brand awareness?
4. Do you want or need an additional platform for your Job Content exposure?
All of the above can be achieved by utilising LinkedIn Tools, so let's break them down one by one and find out what each of the Tool's is able to offer -
1. Top brands attract the top talent
Just as you would have a company profile on Facebook, so too would you do the same for LinkedIn. This allows people to link to your company profile, see what you are all about and interact with you as a business and vice versa. This also assists with your marketing and branding. Let's look into the elements you will need:
Company Profile:Your Company profile is a great way to speak to millions of professionals/potential talent through word-of-mouth recommendations and trusted testimonials. For LinkedIn members, Company Pages are a great way for potential candidates, that are in the market to research companies and find you.
Good recognisable Logo:Any brand should have a logo that represents a company for what it is about and what it stands for. It is the first recognisable 'thing'. Make sure it is clear and the highest quality file size you have in order for LinkedIn to resize it correctly and make it clear.
Services:As a Recruiter, you have a specific service; you need to highlight that so that you can be found and so that job seekers can associate themselves with what you do and whether they would fit in to the organisation.
Employees to link and follow the company:Give your brand a factor of reality by getting all employees to link to the company profile, a company is not a single-celled organism, it is a group of people, that work together, people who want to like to your company profile want to see what is behind the brand.
Careers tab (Paid):Job content exposure should be pretty high on the list of priorities within your Recruitment Strategy. This section provides you with a unique opportunity to interact with millions of passive and active job seekers on LinkedIn. Any job openings you've posted on LinkedIn will show up here. The Tools discussed above are free for your business and they are quick, easy to set up, yet, this section is paid for. There are a few options available and each gives a unique offering for your business.
2. The Professional Network - A goldmine of talent
Now that we have outlined what needs to be done from a brand and company awareness perspective, let's look into the Tools available to you, in order to find the perfect active and passive talent.
People Search:LinkedIn is for professionals and therefore it possibly has the right people for your job vacancies, you are able to check if they have the expertise and the knowledge you're looking to place. Job Seekers are showcasing their skills and capabilities and are ready for the right people and opportunities to find them. So let's find those people -
• Search by name to quickly locate the person you are looking for
• Use the advanced search to target specific skills
• Conduct reference searches on potential Job Seekers
Groups and discussions: Groups and discussions lead you to people that have knowledge within their field, you can find these people by finding relevant discussions where you know these candidates will be talking and engaging.
Signal: LinkedIn makes things simpler, faster and easier for you as the Recruiter to find the right talent, because Signal keeps you in the loop as to what is happening in the world of the professionals
• Filter: Browse only relevant status updates from your stream
• Search for people across the stream
• Find the hottest trending links across any relevant topic
Answers:LinkedIn Answers is one of the best places on the web to share knowledge and find thought leaders. You can browse questions asked, by industry and post your own questions. All you now need to do is wait to see who has answered the questions and evaluate how they answered them.
LinkedIn can assist you two fold, not only is it a fantastic platform to stay in touch with what is happening within the Recruitment industry both locally and internationally, as well as connect with companies and industry leaders, it is a platform where both active and passive Job Seekers are marketing themselves. It is a goldmine of talent, an open forum where you as a Recruiter can get inside information through candidate recommendations and the groups and discussions they are linked to. LinkedIn is targeted and with some time and effort it could be a very beneficial part to your entire Recruitment strategy. But as it has been said before, using Social Networking platforms take time and understanding and if there is no space for those two elements - you need to stay away!