How to Make a Recruitment Strategy

Whether the candidate you hire turns out to be an asset to your company or not depends on the quality of your recruitment strategy.  An effective strategy allows recruiters to provide their employers with a better-qualified workforce aligned with both short-term and long-term business goals.

Creating an efficient recruitment strategy that shortens the speed-to-offer without sacrificing quality can drastically improve ROI. It’s only a matter of finding the right process.

Let’s take a look at how you can do just that.  

Assess Your Existing Strategy

Before implementing a new recruitment strategy, you’ll need to understand how your current one is performing. Identify what is working for you now and what isn’t.

Here’s how you can assess your current recruiting strategy:

• Track current metrics - Find the key metrics of your hiring process. What is your current speed-to-offer, the time it takes candidates to go from application to onboarding? How many candidates can your recruiters screen in a day?
  
  
• Gather recruiter feedback - Team collaboration is key to understanding your hiring process. Talk to your recruiters, and explore what’s not working for them. What do they spend most of their time on?
  
  
• See what your competitors are doing - Your competitors, like you, are looking to achieve the best hiring strategies. Compare what they’re doing and how adopting similar practices could improve your own.

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These steps will provide the insights you need to connect the cause and effect of your current strategy and identify the bottlenecks hindering your recruitment efforts.

Identify What the New Strategy Includes

After assessing your current strategy, you will be able to identify what to include in your new recruiting strategy.

Set goals and metrics where you wish to improve your process. To reach these new goalposts, assess potential project timelines to translate implementing your new strategy into an attainable series of steps. This will create a roadmap of concrete actions to take with any potential marketing strategy or other efforts you employ to achieve these goals.

Gather Internal Feedback

Team collaboration is key to making any recruiting strategy successful. And doubly so when implementing new and different approaches. By ensuring everyone understands the reasoning and methods, you unite your entire recruiting team behind the singular goal of improvement.

Ensure your hiring managers and relevant c-suite members are supporting your goals. C-suite must establish clear business goals which they wish to meet so that you have clear direction. Hiring managers then take the necessary steps to design a strategy alongside your recruiting tactics. Working in tandem with one another creates a single line of communication united by well-defined goals.

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