This article will guide you on how you can regroup and develop a winning recruitment strategy that will help you hire the best.
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An effective recruitment strategy is critical to assembling a team that will make a huge difference in any organization. However, there are companies that keep getting it wrong for one reason or another. That’s why they keep hiring and firing employees.
Interviewing a candidate and asking them a bunch of expected questions and doing things by the book is not enough to know the kind of person that you’re bringing to your team. The candidate, like a typical Kenyan politician, is well-spoken and can articulate themselves. However, when they get the job and it’s time to actually do the work, they maintain an underwhelming performance for months.
They can’t meet deadlines, they have a stinking attitude and the quality of their work is grossly wanting. You need to rethink your strategy and do things more intentionally and effectively so that you can avoid repeating those mistakes over and over and wasting time and resources on hiring and firing.
If you’re wondering where you have been getting it wrong, in your hiring, this article will guide you on how you can regroup and develop a winning recruitment strategy that will help you hire the best.
You may get the wrong hires if you’re in a hurry to fill a role
Sometimes circumstances force you to desperately want to fill a position. Maybe the occupant of the role fell sick or resigned abruptly without serving notice. Other times you get an overwhelming number of clients and business increases to a point you hadn’t foreseen.
These and other occasions inspire a company to desperately scour their circles and networks to find a qualified candidate to fill those positions within the shortest time possible. The only danger is that when the pangs of hunger bite, even half-cooked food is fair game for your stomach. Pay attention. When you’re desperate and in a hurry to fill a role, you’re more vulnerable to making mistakes that have far-reaching consequences.
So, how do you urgently fill a role and get the best talent?
Leverage your reliable networks. If you have friends in corporate circles, ask them to recommend terrific candidates who can do the job. Tell them that you need the potential hire to fill the position in the soonest time possible. People with whom you work in the same industry identify with you in the struggle. Therefore, before they recommend anyone they’ll ensure that you get the best of the best.
The statement, "Your network is your net worth," holds true.
One of the best ways is to engage the services of professionals who specialize in scouting/headhunting and recruiting talent. These people will help you get tested, tried, and proven professionals. Fuzu is such a company. For more than seven years they have been working with different employers. Though they started in Kenya, they have expanded to other countries such as Nigeria and Uganda.
Through their years they have developed a database and a working recruitment strategy that helps employers leapfrog the whole recruitment process and save both time and resources. The rejuvenated Fuzu database has a wide pool of professionals and jobseekers which has been assembled over a long period of time.
When you’re trying to fill a position, you want to have a wide pool of candidates to choose from. With this, you’ll be absolutely sure that you are getting the right candidate and the best.
Free Forever Plan on Fuzu
Access to quality talent continues to become a challenge for growing businesses. Are you facing any of these challenges?
- Hard to get quality candidates
- Too many CVs to sort through
- High cost of hiring
- Not having an organized recruitment process
- Attracting the wrong candidates
- Little to no time to fill a role
- No access to a database in case of urgency - hiring on short notice
- No HR team
We created a recruitment package to help you address these needs. With Free Forever, you can hire better, faster, for free.
Conclusion
Why struggle? Why keep on dealing with the same problem over and over again yet you have a proven solution that will set you and your organization on a path to success. View this as the perfect contingency plan. You never know what might happen in the future as far as your workforce is concerned. However, Free Forever will act as insurance for you when unforeseen circumstances play themselves out.
