Involving members of your team–HR, hiring manager, staff members–in constructing a strong recruiting and interviewing process, increases likelihood you'll draw top talent.
Here are 5 tips to engage your recruiting team…
Hold a planning meeting. Make two hours available to meet with the key players: HR manager, hiring manager, relevant staff members, who else? Agenda items for this meeting include (but are not limited to):
- Job description
- Candidate qualifications
- Time line for posting to hiring
- Interviewing cycle
- Interview format and content
- Interviewer responsibilities
- Forms and processes for use
Brainstorm locating top candidates. This item may be in the above agenda. Invite team members to randomly, freely suggest where, when, and how to identify top-quality potential candidates. After refining and finalizing the brainstorm list, utilize the resources in this (and future?) recruiting.
Announce the position company-wide. Your perfect candidate may reside in-house. As well, you want everyone who may know a qualified candidate to know the position is available. By spreading the word you encourage the word to spread.
Draft (and use) candidate evaluation form. Guarantee consistency in the rating of each candidate by using a standard form. Insure that each interviewer uses the form and in the same, consistent manner. Depending upon the recruiting situation, you may choose to use a generic form or design a form specific to the position being filled.
Prepare interviewers. The higher the quality of the interview (and the entire recruiting process), the higher quality candidates you will attract. Do not assume an interview is merely asking a few questions. Prepare your interview format and content. Prepare your interviewer(s) to insure their engagement. Familiarize interviewers with the candidate evaluation form.
I must I have enjoyed this week's three postings about quality employee recruitment: on engaging the candidate, engaging the interviewee, and engaging the interview team. I really like exploring that engagement is for anyone at any time, in any situation.
Tags: Employee Engagement, Management, Recruitment
