Trends in Selection and Recruitment

 

Finding and picking the right people is still your most important HR intervention. HR practices in recruitment and selection are still those of the Stone Age. Somebody gets a new job or an internal promotion. HR writes a job description, replete with required skills and competencies. The position is advertised, and applicants apply. HR waits a few weeks until there is a good batch. Five candidates are invited for interviews based on a long list. After several interview rounds and perhaps some assessments or tests, the last candidate is offered employment. Her notice period is three months. She started six to nine months after the vacancy occurred.

Therefore, the implementation of modern methods in employee recruitment will be more effective. Here are the latest trends in recruitment and selection.

1. From reactive to proactive

The biggest change that is slowly happening, is moving from reactive recruitment to proactive recruiting. Some degree of workforce planning is needed. With today's level of HR analytics, an improved workforce planning quality is not so difficult to achieve. Who are the people, or just what kind of people will be leaving within a few years? What are the characteristics where there is rising demand? stop recruiting for vacancies, but recruit and select to build up your future capabilities.

2. From recruitment for positions to recruiting assignments

The flexibility of the workforce offers more creative use by organizations. The important thing is to think less in terms of jobs and more about assignments. There is work to be done, and how do we find the best people on the market who can get it done? Here are steps for the intermediary who knows well the market for self-employed professionals. And an increasing number of online platforms provide such services.

3. From skills to values and personality selection

Their core organizations are seeking talent where the values and personality of an organization fit well with those represented in a candidate. Moreover, organizations have personalities. What is emerging now are methods for matching people and institutions to fit each other best.

Companies today are developing strong talent brand strategies to reduce their cost per hire and lower turnover rates. A talent brand is something that is created via the joint efforts of the marketing department and the HR department. (Bersin, 2015)

4.Use of applicant tracking software (ATS)

One fast emerging trend is rapid adoption of Applicant Tracking Software (ATS). ATS are software designed specifically to meet the recruitment needs of a company. These software focus on managing the entire recruitment process, monitoring ad campaigns, and creating an excellent candidate experience. ATS can be used to post job openings, screen resumes, and generate interview requests to potential candidates by e-mail. Other features include individual applicant tracking, requisition tracking, automated resume ranking, customized input forms, per-screening questions and response tracking, and multilingual capabilities

5.Building an end-to-end talent brand

More and more companies today are focusing on building end toned talent brand. A talent brand refers to how the company is being perceived by its current employees, past employees and prospective employees. It is a method for communicating and showcasing the company corporate culture in real time. Companies today redeveloping strong talent brand strategy to reduce their cost per hire and lower turnover rates. A talent brand is something that is created via the joint efforts of the marketing department and the HR department.

6.    Develop mobile recruitment strategy

Recent surveys indicate that increasingly large number of prospective candidates use mobile devices to access the internet and carry out personal tasks including job search. Hence, a growing trend among large firms is to create a mobile career site built specifically to meet the needs of the mobile device users. The aim is to use mobile recruitment to post jobs and create postings that can be easily shared on social media and readily responded to it, (Chungyalpa W, Karishma T, 2016)

 

 References

 

Bersin, J. (2015). The 9 Hottest Trends in Corporate Recruiting. Forbes. [online] 1 Jul. Available at: http://www.forbes.com/sites/joshbersin/2013/07/04/the-9-hottest-trends-in-corporate-recruiting/3/ [Accessed 18 Dec2023].