Recruitment Tips for SMEs
The following guide outlines 12 key steps to achieving hot recruitment results:
| Step | How | |
| 1 | Identify Your Hiring Need | Create a detailed job brief and clear expectations for your job vacancy by defining the purpose of the job and what you want it to achieve in the next 12 – 18 months. |
| 2 | Attract Target Market | Define and reach out to your target audience via multiple marketing channels. Sell your opportunity clearly stating what’s in it for the prospect. |
| 3 | Capture Quality Applications | Aim for quality NOT quantity applications. Make it easy for your target audience to self-assess their own suitability for your job; and take action to apply. |
| 4 | Nurture Applicants | Provide all applicants with a positive application experience whatever their result, using a professional recruitment process and providing timely applicant updates. |
| 5 | Shortlist Candidates | Review and match applicants against your job brief requirements. Select the initial short-list to evaluate. |
| 6 | Evaluate Candidates | Determine candidates suitability for the job with evaluation forms that ask the right questions. Discover and qualify authentic work history, experience, skills, attributes and potential. |
| 7 | Make the Right Hire Decision | Compare candidate results against your job brief requirements, and select the most suitable candidate. |
| 8 | Make an Irresistible Offer | Ensure your offer of employment matches the values important to your preferred candidate, creating a compelling offer hard to resist! |
| 9 | Generate Employment Contract | Turnaround the employment contract quickly to secure candidate’s employment. |
| 10 | Set Up for Success | Create a good first impression, and ensure your new employee is set up to succeed from day one, by engaging them in a 90-day induction programme. |
| 11 | Track & Measure Results | Track and measure recruitment campaign results. Knowing what works and doesn’t will help you to continuously improve your recruitment results. |
| 12 | Create Advocates | Strive to create new company advocates through positive applicant and new employee recruitment experiences. Why? 51% of roles are filled by word of mouth referrals! |
Check out how your organisation can easily apply these steps and achieve hot recruitment results today. (Learn more here…)
