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Recruiting Tips
An awesome problem nagging the HR department at the time of recruitment is handling the flood of applications that pour in from all quarters. How do you sift the grain from the chaff? Here are some pointers to effective recruiting.
Planning
- Plan recruitment in advance. Try to get a list of requirements at least 2-3 months in advance. Recruiting for immediate project requirements is chaotic but unavoidable.
- Avoid the temptation to relax selection criteria and procedures. Instead prepare a contingency procedure to be followed in all such cases
Advertising
- The image of your company conveyed by appointment advertisements should be very carefully managed.
- Draw up the budget for using an advertising agency.
- Define an objective for each advertisement released in terms of number of responses, expected shortlists and expected selections. Give a specific reference code to each advertisement to monitor results. Monitor actual response by tracking against reference code for the advertisement.
- In newspaper advertising, ensure immediate action by announcing interview dates in the immediate future. Avoid walk-ins; ask people to make an appointment instead.
- Plan on the minimum period given below, to complete the advertisement process from preparing the ad to selection: 3 weeks for newspapers, 6 weeks for weekly magazines and 2 months for monthly magazines.
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