As the promise of an economic upturn brightens, many top performers will take flight for more lucrative opportunities. While you can't always stem the tide, your recruiting department can prepare for the increase in recruiting activity and avoid the many perils of being understaffed. Now's the best time to take steps to improve your time-to-hire and maximize recruiting success.
Manage your employment appeal: Effectively communicating your appeal as an employer is essential to attracting the best talent. Start by assessing potential applicants' perceptions about your organization. And, be sure your assumptions about their priorities as employees are correct. From there, develop resonating messages that powerfully convey your employer attributes. Ensure those messages are consistently communicated across all recruiting channels — especially the careers section of your web site.
Evaluate your web site: An ineffective careers section can actually deter top talent from submitting their resumes. Research and incorporate best practices into your site. For example, you'll find the best recruiters have sites with simple and intuitive navigation as well as a robust search function. They also customize copy for different audiences, monitor and effectively reply to user responses, and avoid routing users to other sites. An easy-to-use and frequently updated career site will keep top talent coming back to evaluate new employment opportunities. And, you'll more effectively capture and sort better information, resulting in lower time-to-hire, lower recruiting costs, and better qualification of job candidates.
Automate and integrate: Perhaps you're using PeopleSoft's HRMS applications but haven't fully leveraged its latest eRecruiting and Resume Processing capabilities. If so, you're missing out on some very rich functionality that can significantly streamline your recruiting process and deliver superior recruiting results. Take action on this now — before the explosion in recruiting activity hits home.
Tap into an expert: To quickly establish recruiting practices that efficiently attract top talent, you may need outside expertise. The right consultants can help you develop a recruiting strategy that ties directly to business results as well as metrics to measure success drivers. They can accurately assess your employment appeal as well as incorporate best-practice functionality into your web site. And, an experienced partner can help you evaluate and justify PeopleSoft eRecruiting solutions and then effectively implement and integrate them.
CherryRoad is just such a partner. With a solution that delivers top candidates while also streamlining business processes, our seasoned business consultants can help your organization succeed in the tough game of high-volume recruiting. To learn more, contact us at info@cherryroad.com.