Monday, October 12, 2009

The Different Staffing Solutions You Can Use

By Calvin Patel

The recruitment of employees has become both easier and challenging these modern times. With the booming of the online world of job boards, recruitment websites, and social media, the likelihood of finding top notch candidates is great. However, an increased number of applications mean heavier tasks for the sourcing team.

As a standard procedure in any organizations, recruitment starts with a job analysis. Job analysis is a process of documenting the actual or intended job requirement and putting those requirements into a job description. This step is then followed by sourcing. Sourcing involves activities in the fields of advertising and recruitment research. Then comes is the process of screening and selection. After all three are accomplished, everything is finalized in the final step, "on boarding."

Companies have two approaches for recruitment. They can either retain professional recruiters in the presence of a Human Resource Department or opt to outsource some or all of the components of the hiring process to recruitment agencies.

Bigger players in the industry commonly resort to having their own in-house recruitment using their respective HR Department. Advertising media for job vacancies can include a company's own website, internet employee referrals, working with external associations, or focusing on campus graduate programs. On both the large and small scales, each company still needs better staffing solutions.

The easy answer that companies would usually pick for their staffing solutions would be to leave this tedious task to an outsourced company. But if we take it down to the basics, the whole process of recruitment will still be at the same pace. But nowadays, there is one great answer to the problem of most companies on staffing solutions. We now have recruiting software widely available for the purpose of making it much easier to go about the hiring process.

The various types of recruiting software give the hiring team an automated system. All the data would just need to be encoded on the database and the software does the rest with just a "click" command. Its capabilities cover areas such as easier and systematized ways of searching for qualified candidates. This feature can make sorting out the applications by categories and qualifications based on company set standards done in a few clicks.

Faster navigation in the areas of new job requisitions, resume harvesting, and templates for related communications are key advantage points when equipped with the recruiting software.

The bottom line of all this is that the recruiting software ensures three things. First is quality because the software shortens the distance between the employer and right candidate by its automated selecting and categorizing function. Second it gives more productivity because it allows recruiter to spend time interacting with candidates instead of sifting through resumes. Lastly, it can be a key to successful hiring because it presents the right candidates to hiring managers that in turn mean better business.

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