How To Organize Your Recruiters To Retain Quality Job Candidates

One of the biggest problems that recruiters face is being able to hire true quality and keep up with them through the entire process. This is often how departments are positioned because they don't really help out the recruiter to retain well.

Many recruiters feel stuck because they don't get much say in the process and are only involved in the initial sourcing of the issue. Management will claim that they are not focused on creating benefit for their company by following mission statements, values, etc. when deciding on candidates to source.

So in order for a manager and a recruiter to be on the same page there has to be some congruency. One of the big things that has to happen is the recruiter needs to be involved more in the whole process from start to finish.

One way to do this is to make the recruiter directly responsible for employee turnover that happens in the first year of the employment. Second they need to have more of a say in the process and given the ability to reject the candidate at any time in the process.

If companies do this, records show that it will improve the retention for those companies and the time-to-fill metrics that are commonly measured by companies. You are going to find this with any department you work in. The more authority you give then the more respectful and motivated the employee will be.

In the end no matter how many interviews and resumes you have, it comes down to recruiting right and finding that ideal candidate before your competition does. If you can quickly respond to the right resumes you are going to get valuable employees.

My suggestion is that you look at ways to automate this whole process. One company that does well with that is Entice Labs and their Talent Seekr product that sends out jobs across numerous niched web sites on the internet.

So get to work and empower your recruiters if you are manager and make sure they are in line with your methods. If you are a recruiter then find ways to gain more authority and become more focused on creating great success for your department.

Cade Krueger consults with recruiters as the Director of Sales for Entice Labs and helps recruiters with finding ideal job candidates for quality hires. He also promotes the TalentSeekr product for job recruiting that reaches five times the audience at a fraction of the cost of job boards. This helps to save recruiters time and money.