How to be a recruiter of repute using simple recruitment guidelines

Attracting great talents
Hello! This write-up was put together to help anyone that needs a guide on how to recruit a new staff without having issues. This guideline will work for either the formal or informal sectors, big organizations or SMEs, permanent, contract or any other form of arrangement within any sector.

So, let’s take a brief look at what Recruitment is.

It is the whole process of getting a candidate for a job opening. It covers different stages from advertising the vacancy, attracting applicants, shortlisting, interview process, selection, hiring and on-boarding.

It could be a daunting process but it is actually simple and can be an interesting journey if you understand the basic guidelines.
Obviously, the main reason for going through a recruitment process is to, by the end of the process, find the person who is best qualified for a vacant position and who will work towards attaining the organizational goals

Here are the basic Steps to guide your process.

Human Resource (People) Need identification

A need for personnel has to be identified. This may be a newly identified position or an existing one to replace an exit staff.As soon as this is identified, some necessary things need to be sorted immediately.
These are;

1. Understanding the job that needs to be done,
2. Peculiarities of the job,
3. The reporting lines,
4. Position
5. Salary,
6. Work tools etc.,

These will help in putting together a detailed JD. A carefully designed JD will also play its role in attracting the right applicants for the job. It creates an image in the minds of applicants which makes it easier for them to predict their suitability for the job.

Candidates’ Search

Here, the need is made public through adverts. This can be online (social media, email, professional networks, recruitment agencies, etc.) or offline (notice boards, internal memo, newspaper adverts, Mobile advert, word of mouth etc.)A good recruitment process must be objective.

This starts at the early stage by ensuring that the job opportunity is made available and open to all interested and eligible applicants. As such, a combination of the various advert options should be explored. The more advert options, the more the applications.

At times, it happens that enough qualified applications may not be received at the 1^st instance. You can then place the advert again or share the ad link with friends or with your network. Recruitment agencies can easily take away such stress if you choose to outsource it.

Selection

This is where the decision either to hire or not is taken. The decision here can either crown all the recruitment efforts or lead to a frustrating experience if the wrong candidate is hired. To select, a recruiter should consider if the job requirements match the candidate’s;

• Skills
• Knowledge and
• Abilities

After all processes have been carefully gone through, to ensure validity of the recruitment process so far, it will be great to do some checks on the institution(s), previous employers, referees, his social media pages or simply google his name………this is best before the ultimate decision is taken.

Hiring a wrong candidate will not only waste the time and efforts so far, it will put the recruitment manager in an uncomfortable position. The thought of termination is not appealing and should be avoided at this point.

As soon as the decision to hire any candidate is taken, an offer will be made to the selected candidate and its acceptance will open the doors to the next and final phase of the recruitment process.

At this stage, if you find yourself in doubt, please DO NOT HIRE. You may choose to seek an expert   opinion, ask for help, or even start the process all over again with a fresh set of applicants.

On-boarding
This is where you welcome and introduce a new hire to the organization. The 1^st two or three days of resumption should be used to fill necessary forms, discuss employment benefits, go through the company policies, procedures, introduction to team members and taken round the organization. This is called orientation.

However, a longer period should be allowed for the new hire to learn the company culture, understanding the peculiarities of the people, job and organization, build relationships etc. This period where the company helps the new hire to become accustomed to the new environment is called on-boarding.

On-boarding can be easier when you assign an old team member to the new hire. This is the buddy system and it helps the new hire to progressively integrate into the system at a relatively faster and more comfortable way.