The previous year, i.e., 2022, gave us many examples of unusual hiring practices. With the Great Resignation and Quit Quitting still going strong in January 2023, HR personnel must find creative recruitment strategies to fulfill the employee quota.
As an HR personnel, you can adopt the following hiring practices for easier recruitment in 2023:
Post Inclusive Job Ads
Inclusive recruitment isn’t just one of the most effective recruitment strategies; it is also necessary. With various human rights organizations advocating to eliminate gender, sexual, racist, and other biases from the workplace, hiring diverse candidates has become essential.
As an HR personnel, you can also find a bigger pool of potential candidates by posting inclusive job ads. However, don’t forget to make the workplace environment welcoming and comfortable for diverse employees. You can achieve this by offering inclusive employee benefits that help attract candidates belonging to various minorities.
Adopt and Promote Transparency
It is no secret that most businesses didn’t pass on the funds received during the coronavirus pandemic to those who deserved them, i.e., employees. Besides downsizing and laying off employees without warning, businesses saved money on bills and miscellaneous expenditures on physical stores and offices.
Hence, it isn’t surprising that most potential candidates don’t want to work for such businesses or any business they suspect of the same behavior. As an HR personnel, you can capitalize on the organization’s fair and considerate practices during the pandemic by adopting transparency.
Adopting transparency isn’t one of the new hiring practices. Instead, it is a practice that many brands adopt to set them apart from their competitors, engage with their audience, and keep their employees happy and motivated. By disclosing the company’s expenses and earnings, employers can easily hire new talent and instill trust among the candidates.
Utilize Technology
AI, i.e., artificial intelligence, has become widely accessible and popular in the last few months. If the company you work for has a progressive workplace culture, adopt AI sooner than later to make hiring practices as easy as possible. With AI, you can automate various recruitment strategies and processes, including reviewing resumes, screening candidates, and scanning similar job vacancies for optimization. You can also send standard replies and (polite) rejection emails and analyze the recruitment process in real time to tweak it as needed.
Besides AI, you can also use various digital software to follow up with potential candidates, discover market-competitive pay, post/re-post the vacancy ads at specific times, and ensure that vacancy ad language is easy to understand and grammatically correct. Digitizing the application and follow-up process can also help make recruitment easier.
Don’t forget to use the most effective recruitment strategies, i.e., offering fair wages and valuable employee benefits. Most employees only work for monetary benefits or benefits that save them money. Therefore, offering employee benefits such as remote work options, flexible timings, healthcare, etc., and a fair wage can significantly attract a more incredible pool of potential candidates.
Lastly, don’t forget to provide inflation adjustments to the existing employees. Recruiting new employees is a costly process. Therefore, it must be avoided when possible through long-term employee retention.
