Despite the continuing volatility in the hiring market, employers and recruiters still tend to think in the old established patterns such as \u2018we\u2019re sharing this job with the marketplace and we\u2019ll chose the best candidate\u2019 or \u2018we\u2019re opening this opportunity up to the talent pool\u2019. This can be shortsighted. A 2021 survey of 5,000 UK employees found that 89% were thinking about changing jobs. The so called \u2018talent pool\u2019 now includes all the people a company already employs and – while employers cast out their lines into the talent pool – other employers are fishing in their existing workforce!<\/p>\n
Giving candidates what they want is essential both to retaining employees and – more demandingly – to recruiting them. Web based recruitment software can be an asset, but only if it\u2019s supporting new ideas about recruitment rather than taking their place. And the gap between candidate desire and recruiter activity is widening.<\/p>\n
Where do many candidates hear about vacancies? On websites. And the best recruitment websites don\u2019t just advertise roles but convey mission, values and culture, which one in five of candidates under 30 say is their top consideration when looking for a job. Thinking of your recruitment website template not so much as a way of \u2018finding\u2019 candidates but rather as a way of \u2018persuading\u2019 them is a mental shift that recruiters need to make if they are to create web copy that causes candidates to continue with their application.<\/p>\n
This should be a no brainer – of course people choose clear options that have defined timelines – when we order goods online, we don\u2019t ever opt for the \u2018may arrive any time in the next 21 days\u2019 seller. So why do recruiters think that it\u2019s okay to have a fuzzy recruitment process, with no clear deadlines, and to move those deadlines if their circumstances change, without communicating that to their candidates? Rhetorical question, obviously, but many employers do this and wonder why they lose their \u2018talent\u2019 along the way. The best recruitment software for agencies and employers alike allows them to explain if something changes in the planned recruitment process – it\u2019s not that candidates can\u2019t accept change, it\u2019s simply that they want to be informed about it!<\/p>\n
It\u2019s clear that adjusting thinking to the candidate\u2019s point of view can only help recruiters, and that what candidates want is hardly unreasonable. Using technology to develop and reinforce the mindset that puts candidate need at the forefront makes economic sense in a climate where candidates need reassurance and clients need candidates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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