7 Factors that are driving your recruiters crazy

Jun 30
10:20

2015

Krishna Yerra

Krishna Yerra

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Recruitment is not a cake-walk task as it looks like. A company’s vision of hiring best employees is to be full filled by these skilled employees only.

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But knowingly or unknowingly they come across certain activities,7 Factors that are driving your recruiters crazy Articles policies or demands set by the management of the company that can make them go crazy or in simple terms bring down their productivity. Here is our list of 7 factors that are sure to be avoided in a company:

  1. No Proper Job Description:

Most of the times the project team simply gives a one liner communication to the recruiters - “We have requirement, let’s hire”. But they don’t provide any details as to what are they hiring for, what is the job description and expectations from the candidates coming for the interview. It is recommended for the project team to prepare a detailed and relevant job description that can help recruiters to bring relevant profiles.

 Only 100% fit candidate should join the company

A common statement from the management - “We will wait till 100% fit candidate joins the company”. This happens rarely and recruiters have to bear the remarks of poor performance. The applicant must have worked on different project or platform altogether so there is less chance that he/she fits to your requirements. Look for the skills and capability of the candidate to learn and grow; instead of pushing the recruiters.

 Pushed for Deadlines

Murphy’s Law for Recruiters, says - “Every recruiting process takes longer time than you thought it would”. There are always the chances that your recruiters are not able to meet the deadlines to close the positions. But are they really at fault? Look back at their reports to understand the reasons of no-show from candidates, reasons why interviewers are rejecting applicants or even why candidates are not accepting the offer letter. Bring necessary changes in communication and branding of the jobs.

 No tracker implemented for recruitment

Even if you are a start-ups with single numbers hiring or a big company with seasonal hiring, ignoring the importance of a tracker is equivalent to having no recruitment process at all. The first thing to implement in recruitment process is a tracker which can help tracking the details of profiles sourced and generate reports on the progress of each applicant into various hiring stages. This will help improving the productivity of the recruiters

 Their work is being overlooked

Recruiters have a hard time reaching the candidates, scheduling their interviews and make sure they appear at the office premises. Bringing jobs to people is like the mission of their life, but nobody seems to care about that. Even a note of thanks is missing at times. Boost the morale of the recruiters specially when an employee recruited by them becomes the star of the company.

 Rejecting great candidates without proper feedback

After efforts of many days, recruiters find a great candidate, specially at the higher level but then he/she gets rejected by the interviewers. The worry here is recruiters are not provided with a valid or relevant feedback from the interviewers. Make sure management structures out a parameter sheet for interviewers as a mandatory step for feedback.

 Their Pre-historic ATS is driving them crazy

It is good that your company has implemented one applicant tracking system for your hiring process, it may be in-built or taken from a vendor. But look back again and see if it has been outdated. This might create a havoc among the recruiters on involving in too much of manual process to manage recruitment.