by Haris Quintana

A successful recruiting strategy should involve your entire team as well as some aspects that you might not expect. However, if you do not have the time to do so and would like some help with recruitment (depending on the position), you can use executive recruiters such as Sheer Velocity, for instance, to help you with finding the best person for the position. If you do plan on tackling it yourself, to demystify the process, try some of these simple recruiting tips to help you to consistently attract the top talent.

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Promote Employee Referrals

Some of the most effective recruiting and candidate selection strategies are actually pretty simple. The first step to building a successful recruiting machine is to turn every employee into a recruiter by soliciting referrals, whether you need office staff or medical staffing. 

The simplest strategies are often the best:

• Hire the most amazing people you can find

• Keep them consistently challenge and happy

• Encourage them to bring in their most talented friends

• Provide an excellent candidate experience

• Repeat, until this process outgrows employee networks

By the time you can’t repeat this process, you’ve probably developed a dedicated in-house recruiting team. 

Prioritize Candidate Experience

A good candidate experience has many benefits, but getting it wrong can give you a bad reputation that can be hard to recover from. 

Remember that the candidate experience is the first interaction that a potential employee has with your organization. 

A well-designed candidate experience gives the impression that your organization cares about its people before they’re even on the team. This is a very positive signal to send to candidates, new hires, and longstanding employees. You’re reinforcing the important that you place on people at every level. 

If their experience with your organization is positive, even candidates that you don’t hire should still have good things so say about you. A bad experience will leave a bad taste, both for the candidate and the employee who referred them. 

Is your candidate experience on the right track? Did you:

• Provide an accurate description of the job duties early on?

• Show up on time?

• Come prepared?

• Provide a warm introduction to the team?

• Exchange feedback with a candidate?

Have A Great Offboarding Process

It might seem counter-intuitive when you’re thinking about recruiting, but a good onboarding experience is actually an important part of a successful recruiting strategy. Not all employment relationships have to end on bad terms, and a lot of this will hinge on the way that your employees are offboarded. 

A lot of businesses are so focused on creating the perfect onboarding experience that they need a bit of a push to be reminded of how important post-onboarding events can be. 

Just like your current employees who love your organization enough to recommend it to their friends and send you referrals, past employees can do the same. Sometimes, your past employees can be a fantastic source of referrals for new candidates. 

Past employees aren’t just potential ambassadors either. 

Former employees who loved their time working for your organization and were offboarded in an amicable way are more likely to decide to return. If and when they do, they will bring back the unique skills that you hired them for in the first place, and probably some new ones too.