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Tips for Managing Risk in Recruitment and Selection

By | David Klaasen | Helping You Create Clarity, Inspire Your People & Drive Performance | Retain your best people | Changing Management Mindsets and Behaviour | Practical Behaviour Analytics

How To Avoid Expensive Recruitment Mistakes (Part 2)

Without the right people your business will suffer missed opportunities, management distracted by underperformance and the potential to squander serious amounts of time, effort and money. This means you need to be effective at managing risk in recruitment and selection. The current tight labour market and skills shortage is not helping because the best people can pick and choose where they want to work.

Consider this; most companies will spend a considerable amount of time, effort and money marketing their products and services. Yet they consistently fail to invest in marketing job vacancies.  Certain words resonate with us and catch our attention more than others so a little linguistic creativity can help attract the most suitable candidates for your business. Whether you are using a traditional job advertisement in a newspaper, online job boards or agencies, you need to carefully craft the wording so it will grab the attention of your ideal candidates.

Know who you are looking for

You can begin managing risk in recruitment by being absolutely clear about the sort of person you want to attract:

·      What are the motivational preferences of your ideal candidate?

·      What do they need to be interested in? 

·      What sort of tasks and thinking styles do they need to enjoy most?

It is easy to answer these questions once you have analysed the role and developed a well-crafted Job Success Formula. To find out more about this, have a look at Part 1 of this series of articles. You can find it here.

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