Winning talented people for your organization is one of the best investments that you can make. Your top performers drive your business forward and, ultimately, deliver success.
But acquiring these people can seem like a massive challenge. Unless you have deep pockets, how do you get the best people to work for your company? It’s hard.
What follows are some specific actions that you can use to attract and retain employees who will add tremendous value to your organization. Check them out below.
Become Known as a Top Employer
When businesses think about their branding, they usually consider the way that their firms appear to customers. But it also has another use: attracting talented employees.
Typically, the best workers not only want to work for a fat paycheck but also an organization that upholds their values and aspirations. Google is the master at this. The company portrays itself as some kind of Valhalla of capitalism – a refuge for the talented few who want to escape the drudgery of the mainstream business world. Other companies have excellent reputations, too, including Microsoft, Salesforce, and Oracle.
When you become a top employer, you don’t have to go out and find talent: it’ll come to you. And that massively reduces your search costs.
Use Specialist Recruiters
Specialist recruiters are going through something of a renaissance of late. With the unemployment rates at historic lows throughout 2019, there was an increasing need for agencies with the right connections to match people to roles. Accounting and finance staffing was in particular demand. Companies wanted organizations that could provide people with the requisite skills at a moment’s notice.
For many firms, using recruiters is still the preferred way of doing things – and that makes a lot of sense. But now many outfits offer short-term vacancy-filling services too. And these can help you find talent in specific niches.
Bring Your Employees Into the Hiring Process
Employees can assist your hiring processes in several essential ways.
- Recommend talented candidates who can help increase the value of the firm
- Help to assess the resumes of candidates to determine who is a good match
- Assist with the interview process and tell you whether a particular person is likely to fit in with the culture of the firm
Hire People With “Street Smarts”
A lot of hiring managers like to employ middle-of-the-road career-minded candidates with relevant technical skills. In other words, people just like them. In today’s job market, smart people are a dime-a-dozen. Universities churn out thousands of graduates every year who passed with first-class honors. It’s nothing special anymore.
There are relatively few people who successfully combine their academic learnings with street smarts. Some people – like Elon Musk – manage it, but many don’t.
If a candidate seems a little rough around the edges at the interview, then that could be a good thing. You need a bit of ruggedness in the workplace. Those sorts of personalities engender genuine change. They have a habit of calling you out on your BS.
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