tips for hiring in tight labour markets
We all want to hire great people, but when a candidate shortage coincides with a hiring boom, the difficulty of hiring good people increases exponentially. Applicants understandably become more selective, creating a vicious circle in areas such as salary expectations, benefits and employment conditions. Here we look at some of the steps that you can take to ensure that your company becomes, then remains, good at hiring
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our hiring managers understand and execute best-practice. Even in a normal market, there is no excuse for bad habits, but in the current market every applicant needs to move through a process that is first-class and consistent.
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When hiring for long term employees, however, functional skills should form part of a broader candidate profile comprising life experience, values, motivators, personality traits and soft skills. This is where we have seen an erosion in best practice. Talk of ‘the great resignation’ and consequent skill shortages has notched up the sense of panic, pushing up salaries and lowering the threshold in the other aspects of screening outside functional skills.
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