If you start looking for a candidate only when an open position pops up, you’ll end up spending more money and time for the right hire.

Candidates that have an unpleasant interview experience are unlikely to take up your offer if selected, even if the job offer is a great one. And even if they do accept your job offer and become your employees, they are far more likely to carry the memory of a poor interview experience for a while. This will have an adverse impact on their commitment and performance levels as well.

What is Skills-based Hiring?

Let’s say you are offering lucrative benefits to the current employees who refer their friends and acquaintances. You are regularly running campaigns and creating hype. Your employee engagement is good and your relationship with existing employees is cordial. You have an excellent recruiting team and an efficient recruitment process. You even send attractively designed emails to catch the employee’s attention, so that they actually click on that employee referral program email.

Ever wondered why some brilliant new employees with excellent resumes simply fail to convert that potential into performance, in spite of being paid quite well. As a recruiter, it would be quite surprising that candidates with great credentials turn out to be poor performers or even indifferent and uncommitted workers. This is one perspective you should consider challenging.

Talent acquisition is as competitive a field as the Olympics. The pitfalls and the sheer burden of it all, and not to mention how thankless the job feels at times. But there are ways to reduce the workload, or at least make the process more efficient.

What Should a Recruiter Look for in a Remote Workers CV?

Employee turnover has adverse effects whose impact is much more than the strain of acquiring new talent. The sheer cost of replacing an employee who has been doing well and adding value to the company is hard to quantify. Therefore, retaining employees who bring value is always a great option compared to hunting for talented candidates who will contribute to the company’s future success.