Your business needed more employees yesterday. But you want quality employees, ones who will stick around. How do you catch the perfect employee quickly?
Assemble accurate job descriptions for the positions you must fill. That’s right, getting the job description precise prevails as the best way to find and retain the right people for the job.
How can you possibly hire the best person for that job if you haven’t defined the position and required skills? With this step completed, the hiring process speeds up utilizing a few tools. Technology improves the hiring process for smaller businesses.
LinkedIn paves the way to find those job seekers which are a perfect fit for your company. Complete a company profile, and allow job seekers to apply using it. LinkedIn Recruiter assists in locating the best candidates.
LinkedIn is referral friendly, so your employees become involved. The comprehensive professional information speeds up screening. InMail allows private message contact with candidates.
Applications such as Recruiterbox, Proven, or Recruitee allow you to track all applicants, push your job out to multiple job boards and social media, and even set up interviews.
Limited time for phone or face to face interviews? No problem, video interviews accelerate this portion of the hiring process. Applications such as SparkHire automate the video interview process, no webcam required.
Candidates schedule online, team members view the interviews according to their schedule and send emails to candidates as they move through the process.
Technology helps small and medium businesses acquire the best talent for the job smoothly.
Author: Kris Keppeler, writer for Crossing Genres, and The Must Go List on Medium.com, and Does This Happen to You? on Channillo. Follow her @KrisKKAria on Twitter.
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