How Do Recruiters Find the Right Candidate for a Vacant Position?

Finding the right candidates for jobs’ vacant positions is becoming more and more difficult with each passing day. HR professionals and recruiters that don’t remain up-to-date with the new innovative recruiting strategies are unable to find the best suitable job candidate to fill up an open position. With all the changes and advances in the recruitment process, there are new solutions and techniques to avoid some of the biggest recruiting challenges.

According to the Recruitment Strategy Report, the biggest challenge faced by the recruiting companies and HR professionals is the shortage of skilled candidates. To find the right candidate fit for the job, a well-planned hiring strategy needs to be formed. It is important to understand the process which has changed significantly over the years.

To attract high-quality qualified applicants for hard-to-fill roles, you need to follow these 6 steps to find the right job candidates.

1.      Know your Ideal Candidate

It is ideal to know your candidate’s characteristics, skills, motivation, and preferences for finding talents that are a good fit for your company. Knowing your candidate’s persona will help you find the right candidates faster, easier and more efficiently. 

2.      Write Clear and Specific Job Descriptions

It is necessary to write a clear and detailed job description to find job candidates with a good fit. While writing a job description make sure to also talk about the company’s culture and value proposition instead of just defining the roles, responsibilities, duties and requirements. 

3.      Use a Recruitment Marketing Tool

Without the right set of marketing tools, finding the right job candidate is hard. With the right recruitment marketing tools, you can build innovative recruiting strategies that may also improve candidate’s experience and engagement. 

4.      Update and Optimize Company’s Career Page

It is always better to keep updating the career’s page of your company’s website. Candidates who visit your website’s career page are already showing interest in working for your company. Make sure that they don’t leave without applying so you can always add your current employees’ testimonials, video with the team’s introduction, fun videos of cool projects your company is currently working on. This will attract a lot of high-quality candidates who wish to work for you. 

5.      Adequate Usage of Applicant Tracking System

The main purpose of using the applicant tracking system is to fasten and streamline the selection and hiring process. According to research, top talent stays available for only 10 days, so you might want to hurry up. 

6.      Implement Employee Referral Programs

Employee referrals are proven to have been the best hiring strategy till date. Through employee referrals you can save time, money, effort it has also proven to give you the best candidates with the help of your current employees. The employee referrals take the shortest to hire that brings in the highest quality job applicant. 

Why hire Kalibre Global as your Recruitment Agency?

Kalibre Global is a Dublin based IT Recruitment Agency that helps companies hire highly trained and experienced employees according to the job descriptions mentioned by the recruiting company. Kalibre- recruitment agency, Dublin has expertise in recruiting, staffing, training services and virtual staff outsourcing. We are the right fit for your company if you are looking for hiring highly talented candidates from across the globe that are ready to work towards our company’s goals and objectives.

Kalibre Global- IT Recruitment Agency Dublin follows the best practice ideas to find your company the right candidate to fit your job description. Feel free to write to us at recruiter@kalibreglobal.ie or contact us on +353 015241167 to start gaining immediate benefits for your company by hiring Kalibre Global.