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BOSS Today #47 RECRUITMENT

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Recruitment 2. Reassess Your Search
The recruitment of talent is vital to your Criteria and Practices
company’s success, but many businesses Review your search criteria and practices
have trouble attracting good talent. to ensure that your processes are truly
Many candidates will not settle for inclusive and are evolving with the talent
mediocre position that doesn’t measure pool. If you are still going to the same
up to their own high standards. To talent resources that you did five or
attract the best candidates, these are ten years ago, it is time to reassess and
some considerations: make sure that you are keeping up with
where the top talent is coming from and
1. Create A Stronger Culture what their skills are now.
It is not hard for candidates to find out
the truth about what it is like to work in 3. Pay A Recruiting
your company, so by creating a stronger Bonus for Referrals
culture you will attract better talent. You Pay a recruiting bonus to current
can reflect on your external and internal employees for referrals, because
brand and your reward/recognition referrals from existing employees make
strategy and align this with what is for good hiring. One of the big risks in
currently on the market. hiring is simply mis-hiring.

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