Common challenges within a growing business:
- High recruitment spend
- No idea of actual cost of hire or cost of a bad hire
- No measurement of the recruitment tipping point – the fine line between success and failure
- Use of multiple agencies on various terms and conditions
- Mistrust of external recruitment agencies
- No faith in the internal recruitment function for specialist roles
- Multiple hiring managers within the business with different personalities, agendas and requirements
- Single hiring manager within the business (aka a bottle neck)
- No structured hiring process
- No benchmark questions to measure performance of the interview
- Often reactive to hiring needs (when someone leaves) and when a hiring manager has time
- If the hiring is away from the business, the hiring process is put on hold until they’re back
- No structure to on-boarding
- You fall into one of two recruitment hiring processes
- TOO SLOW
- You’re probably looking for the perfect fit because you’re too busy and don’t want to make a bad hire
- The internal / external recruiter doesn’t get to the bottom of what you’re looking for
- They focus their attention on “easier” vacancies
- TOO FAST
- You hire most people that you see because you know you can sack them if they don’t work out resulting in a bad experience for candidates, team members / morale
- Unsuccessful hires will be blamed on the internal / external recruiter
- Your workload triples as you’re always showing newbies how things work/happen in the business
- Newbies pick up bad habits from others in the team due to an unstructured on-boarding process – and usually leave
- TOO SLOW
- Unsuccessful internal recruitment team
- Turn off the tap to talent by restricting agencies
- Incredibly hard to reach
- Subsequently you miss out on key talent as it goes to your main competitors who have a defined hiring process
- You lose competitor insight (as candidates are unwilling to share information with an internal recruiter for fear of competitor awareness)
- Ultimately you miss company targets due to lack of hire, resulting in more pressure exerted on the existing team (“the safe pair of hands”)
Struggling to nail down a hiring process?
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