23Feb

What Are The Benefits of Hiring A Recruitment Agency?

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Nowadays it has become a very hard task for a company to hire a better candidate because of the high offer rejection rate and high expected CTC. So it can be cumbersome for some companies to get some great talents. In situations like this, you can hire a professional recruitment agency. They can help you in hiring a great candidate with their team of talented hiring professionals. In this article, we are going to look into six major reasons why you should outsource the hiring process to a recruitment agency. 

1. Business Partner:

A recruitment agency plays a vital role in the success of your business. You should not see them as a service provider rather as a partner. This is because they are going to give you the most important resource to run your company namely the better human resource. They are going to look into your business, your vision and mission, your budget, your requirement, and your ask for the qualities in the candidate. As a partner, they are always going to recruit great candidates in your company and will upsurge your business. 

2. Market Knowledge:

One recruiter can not have all the market knowledge. In a recruitment agency, there are recruiters who specialize in different market areas. As a result, they can hire better candidates for your company. They know well about the market standards, challenges, and the sweet spot while hiring talent. The recruitment agencies are well connected with great talents through their platform. 

3. Time-Saving:

The interview and hiring process is very lengthy. This includes processes like sourcing profiles, job boards, scheduling, coordinating with candidates, interview follow-up, offer acceptance follow-up, joining day follow-up, etc. All these processes add up to a longer time in candidate hiring. On the other hand, recruitment agencies take about 20-30 days time to fill a position, starting from job posting to joining date. Thus saving a lot of your precious time. In some cases, this process can take up to 90 days due to the candidate’s notice period. 

4. Quality Talents:

Investing in good human resource hiring is one of the main factors of your company’s growth. A recruitment agency possesses in-house experts who are really great at finding great talent for your company. They thoroughly analyze the candidate’s profile, skillsets, experience, location, and CTC. They hire the candidates based on their interest levels and their efficiency. 

5. Cost Saving:

Many MSMEs and start-ups are not in the position to spend a lot of money to set up a talent acquisition team. The company has to bear costs like staff salary, HR training, and job site costs. These costs will add up to a huge amount. On the other hand, you can acquire great talent with the help of the Recruitment Agency. They will use their in-house resource and provide you with the best talent. 

23Feb

Some Tips to Conduct A Remote Interview

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The covid pandemic has changed many of previous norms. One of the norms is offline interviews. Nowadays the number of online interviews is taking a rapid surge. An online interview is a great interview option, but it can become problematic as technical issues can happen during interviews. Many of the first-timers face various problems while conducting online interviews. You need to be aware of some great interviewing tools and tips to conduct an online interview smoothly. In this article, we are going to see some of the tips using which you can conduct a professional online interview. 

  1. Prepare A Detailed Interview Process

You need to preplan your interview process and mark out the important steps in the whole interview process. An interview is not just a meet-up, it is a major step as you are going to get many important pieces of information about the candidate you are about to hire. So make structured recruitment and interviewing process. You also need to inform the interviewee about the process and about the people who are going to be in the interview. This will give peace of mind to the interviewee and he/she can prepare confidently for the interview. 

  1. Get The Right Tool

Nowadays many free and high-quality online interviewing tools are available in the market. You can use them and make your interview process much smoother. Some examples are Zoom, Google meets, Microsoft teams, etc. Telephonic interviews are not an ideal way of conducting an interview as you are only going to get the auditory information regarding the candidate. It is really important to gather both the visual and auditory information from the candidate. These are going to be helpful in the candidate evaluation and hiring process.

  1. Be Prepared for Any Kind of Communication Barrier

You are going to face various communication barriers during the interview process both visually and auditory. The reason can be many like low-quality equipment and internet issues. Be prepared for these issues and fix them. Make the interview process smooth and make it feel like you are interviewing him/her face to face in the office. 

  1. Some Other Things to Remember

After you have solved the technical part of the interview and created a better environment, then the only thing is to keep in mind is that you have to continue the interview process as you will continue offline. Some tips are; make it a two-way communication, and give time to the candidate to listen and speak. 

Conclusion

       At the end of the day, an interview is a process of knowing each other. The interviewer gets to know the candidate better and the candidate gets to know the company better. The online mode of the interview is only a change in the communication medium. Fix all the issues present in the online medium and conduct a smooth interview.

Key Takeaways

  •  Nowadays the number of online interviews is taking a rapid surge. 
  • Many of the first-timers face various problems while conducting online interviews. Some tools and techniques can help them solve the issue. 
  • The interviewer needs to preplan your interview process and mark out the important steps in the whole interview process. 
  •  Get access to high-quality online interviewing tools like Zoom, Google meets Microsoft teams, etc.
  • Be prepared for issues like low-quality equipment and internet issues.
  • After you have solved the technical part of the interview and created a better environment, then the only thing is to keep in mind is that you have to continue the interview process as you will continue offline.
23Feb

Recruitment Challenges in the Post-Pandemic Scenario

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Introduction

In the post-pandemic scenarios, the process to hire a good candidate has become hard. Before the pandemic, the candidates had to give in-person interviews. But during the covid pandemic, the interview process shifted towards online mode. Now as many people are vaxxed and the covid situation is coming under control, several companies are using a hybrid form of recruitment. They are using both the traditional and the online modes of requirement. Let’s see some of the challenges recruiters are facing in the post-pandemic recruitment scenarios. 

Problems Faced In the Recruitment Process

  1. Candidate’s Desire to Work with A Better Brand And in A Better Environment

The pandemic has raised the bar of expectation of the candidates. They have found out the value of their work. During the pandemic, they have upskilled themselves and are now looking for better brands to work for. Candidates are not ready to work in a position that does not provide the right value for the work they do and does not reward them accordingly. To solve this issue, companies have to provide a better work environment along with other benefits to their employees. 

  1. Long Interview Process

Many companies are scheduling longer interview processes, this is also a reason why many candidates are not showing interest in taking an interview. To solve this issue recruiters are shifting towards a one-day interview process. It is relatively faster and less tiring for the candidates.

  1. Search Of Multitalented Employees

As the bar of desire is rising for the candidates, so for the companies also. They are looking for candidates who can do multiple tasks and hence benefit the company in the long run. The requirement agencies are ready to pay higher packages to the candidates who are multi-talented. For example, a recruiter is gravitated towards hiring a candidate, even with a higher package, who knows both ‘Full-stack development’ and ‘process engineering than a person who only knows one of them. 

  1. Task Round

In many interview processes, there is a task round where candidates have to do certain tasks to prove their skills and capabilities. In some cases, this round is so hard that many candidates quit the interview process in this step. The main problem is that the candidates are given long and hard tasks to complete. As a result, the candidates are exhausted even only looking at the task. To solve this issue, the recruiter has to create shorter tasks, else make and provide the long task in a fragmented manner. 

  1. Job Quitting

Many employees are quitting their job in which they are not valued properly and where they do not find proper work-life balance. One of the best and most historic examples is the recent “great resignation”. Where thousands of American workers quit their job due to less satisfaction and less value for their work. Another thing is that many employees are also offered better job offers that they cannot resist and are quitting their previous position. As a result, the procedure to find a good and valuable candidate has become a hard process. 

Conclusion

         Recruiters have to make sure that they are not relying on the outdated method of recruiting and are choosing the right candidates for their company. They also have to make sure that there is a reduction in the number of entry barriers and right people are getting chances to appear for the interview. In this way, we can address and solve the recruitment challenges in the post-pandemic scenario.  

Key Takeaways

  • In the post-pandemic scenarios, the process to hire a good candidate has become hard where we are using both the traditional and the online modes of requirement. 
  • There are many reasons for this. One is the pandemic has raised the bar of expectation of the candidates.
  • Many companies are scheduling longer interview processes, this is also a reason why many candidates are not showing interest in taking an interview. 
  • As the bar of desire is rising for the candidates, so for the companies also. They are looking for candidates who can do multiple tasks and hence benefit the company in the long run.
  • The task round is so hard that many candidates quit the interview process in this step. 
  • Many employees are quitting their job in which they are not valued properly and where they do not find proper work-life balance.