In the wake of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic that devastated not only the economic strength of businesses in this country but throughout the western world, businesses have faced numerous challenges. The vast majority of companies have had some kind of issue with either the way their recruitment process is structured or else the speed at which applicants are processed and are able to start work.
Continue reading for effective business recruitment methods designed to increase the productivity and efficiency of companies across the various industries.
Application Tracking Software (ATS)
Application tracking software, or ATS, is an innovative and already proven-to-be effective way of streamlining a company’s recruitment processes. It is also a way of decreasing the cost per hire while improving the quality of the hire.
Application Tracking Software is by far the most affordable and yet equally effective way of restructuring your recruitment processes within HR to better suit the way you work and the industry you work in. This innovative software enables recruiters to use processing in bulk to automate workflows, job advertisements, management and arrangement of interviews, and one-to-one and group workshops and interviews with candidates.
Treat Potential Employees as Clients
It is absolutely vital, yet sadly not a matter of course for some employers and business managers, to always treat potential employees and applicants, however underqualified or entirely unsuitable that they may be, with the utmost respect, honesty, and genuine courtesy.
This is important on several different fundamental levels; for your general moral and ethical standing amongst your competitors, your responsibility to represent your brand and company in the correct way and, perhaps most importantly, how you deal with potential and unsuccessful interviewees will significantly contribute to the reputation of your business.
Allow Remote Working and Flexible Scheduling
Each of your current and potential employees work to an entirely different and unique productivity framework with varying prime productivity times throughout the average working day.
As a result, you will see an increase in the quality of work produced and the efficiency and productivity levels if you analyze every one of your primary roles within your company. Take time to ascertain which specific roles, duties, and responsibilities would benefit from a more flexible scheduling system and which job roles may even afford employees the opportunity to work from home once or twice a week.
Ways to Track and Quantify Employee Productivity
There is a wide plethora of tried and tested ways to quantify and track an individual employee’s overall performance levels, which will subsequently enable you to better organize and build up the fundamental structure and framework of your business.
One of the most useful and relatively simple ways is to set a clear and unwavering benchmark of standards that you, both personally and professionally, judge to be the fundamental necessary stages of production. Calculate how much time each employee has to dedicate to their specific job role and conversely deduct all the times of unavoidable unproductivity within the working week.
