Many people think in "virtual world", just take a little time and effort to be able to find candidates they need without interested in the basic techniques for recruitment as sourcing candidates.
Actually, if you want to have an effective recruitment campaign, you still need to create candidates resources, which means you not only need to know the basic principles, but also master the techniques. Here are 4 tips to help you create an effective candidates resources.
1. Focus on learning opportunities of candidates when describing the job.
Wanting to find talent, first you must have an attractive job description. You should not use traditional described which focuses on the knowledge, skills and experience of candidates. Instead, describe the major projects that they will participate in if they work for your company. Do not forget the talented only interested in a job when they realize it can give them an opportunity to learn and develop personal competence in the future.
2. Write a creative recruitment advertising.
An impressive recruitment advertisement is not 100% guarantee you will recruit talents you need, but if you use a boring job advertisement, certainly many people will not even look at it. So, trying to write a creative recruitment advertising, you should not mention the necessary skills in normal enumeration type but in relation to the specific work that the candidate will be responsible, for example: "Applying accounting knowledge in the manufacturing sector to build a new accounting system." Then, set for this job advertisement a title evoking the curiosity of the candidates.
3. Improve the efficiency of the search for candidates in Bank of Profiles
Searching for the talented through a recruitment online website is a good way to source candidates but often takes quite a long time. To improve the efficiency, you should call the candidates have posted profiles within two weeks (the others probably have found a job). For the rest, you can write an e-mail with an impressive recruitment ad, send it to the potential candidates and ask them to respond. For example, you could write: "I saw your profile on the website X and very impressed with your knowledge and experience. If you are looking for job, you may be interested in career opportunities with us (insert job advertisements). Please send me your latest profile and a short paragraph describing your most notably performance in the field of marketing. "
Or simply, you can use the company specializes in providing workers, they have in their hands a thousand of profiles of candidates in a short time. What happens when you have to recruit hundreds of labors within 3 weeks? Series of positions need to be filled to start up production. However, you need to choose reputable companies and consider in costs.
4. Do not forget the social relationships
The social relationship is also an effective channel to source candidates. Be positive in communication with people and find out if they know who fits the job you are hiring. However, you should note that if you want to approach top passive candidates in this way, your work have to really attractive. If not, they only introduce to you a few "medium" candidates only.
Combine all the most effective ways above to create a top candidate resource for your company.
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