ExecutiveChronicles | 5 Steps to Hiring Employees in the New Year | It’s a new year and perhaps you need some new employees on your team to make a bigger splash in your industry. However, it’s not the easiest time to find great talent as there are effects from the Great Resignation. But, with these tips below, you will better appeal to top talent and potentially recruit great employees for your open positions:
Create a hybrid work environment
The pandemic has shown us that working remotely is certainly something that can be done for a lot of industries. In fact, many companies were pleasantly surprised to find that productivity improved with the transition to working from home. Perhaps, you’d like to bring your team back for team building purposes. Have you considered a hybrid work environment?
This is where employees can work at their pace, where they get the job done the best, allowing for both office and remote work throughout the week. While it may take more planning and the use of software for scheduling and connectivity, it can encourage a happier and more productive work environment.
Look in new places
Maybe you already have a full-time team, but you have new positions opening up in the new year and you’re looking for new team members. Consider hiring remote employees for these positions. You may ask how to hire remote employees? There are numerous websites where freelancers offer their services for a fair price, but you could also use sites like Craigslist or Indeed, as well.
Consider revamping positions in the company
In the new year, you may want to take a look at the positions you have filled right now. Are things working out? Do you have the right people for the job? As the new year starts, it could be helpful to consider rearranging job descriptions and perhaps move your team members around for the best fit. This may also mean you come up with new job positions that need to be filled by top recruits.
Update your recruitment processes
In a time where you want to find quality talent but need to improve how you appeal to them, update your recruitment process. From the way you conduct interviews to how you onboard your new employees, it could be wise to use this new year as a time to update how you hire new team members.
An in-depth process can help you to hire smartly, which is extremely important right now when you want to attract and retain quality employees.
Create creative job postings
In order to appeal to the type of team you want, you need to think about how you’re presenting your company. At one point in your life, you may have looked for a job on hiring websites, only to come across some postings that terrified you and made you run the other way, even though you had all of the qualifications and skill to be accepted.
When it comes to appealing to the type of employees you want, you want to make sure your job posting is both readable and grammatically correct, but more importantly created with attracting the kind of people you have in mind. You want to make your company sound like somewhere anyone would want to work at.
In Conclusion
If the new year has you looking for new people for your company, consider if it’s time to update processes for hiring. While things may have worked in the past and you have solid people on your team, it may be time to take a look at the needs of today.
The pandemic has changed a lot of things, including the way that people like to work and what they look for in a workplace environment, so adapt accordingly.
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