The beginning of a year, especially January, is the suitable time to recruit talented staffs who are not satisfied with their current jobs. After parties and promises of lavish bonuses are over, staffs begin to think about their current positions and dream about new opportunities.
The steps for recruiting such Talentis staffs as follows:
There are 3 common reasons why applicants want to continue their current jobs:
To develop themselves: The applicants like their colleagues, the working environment and atmosphere.
To develop career: The applicants have opportunities to improve their skills, feel excited and want to develop their positions.
Financial conditions: The applicants think that they are getting deserved salary.
You may have only one chance to approach applicants, so you should get to know about their personal expectations as many as possible. Based on that, you can build up a suitable recruitment strategy.
Business culture and public culture in a company are often the most remarkable points. Why do applicants work for your company? What makes your company become an ideal working place? What is the difference between your company and the company where applicants are working? Applicants usually look for companies which create good conditions for them to improve their personal and professional skills as well as help them to affirm themselves and make the relationship relying on mutual confidence. When seeking for jobs, many applicants give criteria such as:
- Safe and stable
- Being trained about major;
- Having the balance between work and life;
-Having chances to devote;
- Having chances to develop career;
- Getting deserved bonus and award.
So which criteria does your company meet?
You should have a team of two or three people that help you take diversified appreciation and create opportunities for applicants to communicate with other people with various personalities. Each interviewer focuses on an aspect that is required in the recruited position. For instance, human resource manager will interview to know about applicants' adaptability to personality and culture which is the most important factor in a new position. Experience and education will be interviewed by the person who has much experience in that position. The last person will support to interview applicants about other skills and knowledge.
Be sure that you are the leader of the interview team and provide them with your gathered information. The interview team may need to give compliments to applicants.