Process of Recruitment

The recruitment process involves many things before you nail down the right candidate for your business. In this article, we have listed the most important things that are essential in recruitment process.

Understanding job analysis
Define a particular role by describing in functional terms such as responsibility, skill, task, etc. Performance of the existing team should be looked into, to know how it works, what is the role of the team or if there is anything that you are missing out.

Understanding what you actually want
You should be clear on what type of candidate you require. You should know how to communicate with each other at different levels, ways of dealing with the customers and suppliers, etc. You should know about the culture, values and beliefs you want in the employees for the business.

Writing the job description

• Defining the role broadly
• What accountability, responsibilities and tasks are involved?
• What opportunities and challenges will involve?
• What kind of person is required to fit in your organization?

Deciding about the process of selection
Once you are decided on the job description, next you need to properly assess the candidate and select the one that best suits the job role. You can have a few rounds of interview where you can test the aptitude, reasoning, verbal and analytical skills of the candidate. It will make the recruitment process easy for you.

Identifying sources
Advertising in news papers or hiring a reputed recruitment agency will help you reach out to many candidates. You can also take help of social media sites like twitter, facebook, linkenIn, etc., to attract candidates to your company. Using various sources is an effective way to attract and target candidates. 

Shortlisting of candidates
After advertising in many sources, you will get a good number of candidates who will come for the interview, you need to identify the right candidates and shortlist them for the next round. 

Selection
Once candidates are shortlisted, it becomes easy for selection, as selection involves interviewing, assessing and reference checking of the candidate.

Offer letter
After you have selected the candidate that matches your job profile, you should officially give him/her an offer letter that includes role of the job, responsibilities, salary details, etc.

Training and joining
The candidate you have selected for a specific job profile may struggle initially to cope up with the job. Therefore, you need to provide some training to the candidate for him/her to undertand the job well.

Reviewing
Performance of the newly joined candidate should be properly assessed by the manager or the team leader. Reviewing the candidates work helps in judging the efficiency and performance of the candidate.

Key Attributes of a Managers to be Checked While Hiring

Business development requires many attributes from their managers, managers handle the team and extract a good performance from them. Before hiring a manager for your business check these key attributes from the candidate:

• As a manger “understand the team”, manager should be clear on the company and be able to reach the expectations of the team members.
• As a manager “develop your team continuously”, managers can encourage their team
• members for better performance, they should conduct training sessions for continuous developments.
• Managing the team is the main responsibility of a manager. Manager motivates the people and extracts “teamwork” which produces the potential output.
• Manager is the responsible person for the team, they always trust their teammates. Manager “trust their team” at the tough situations also and continue to perform with them.
• As a manager work for the “respect”, perform with your team to get the recognition.
  

Managers have the ability to take the right decisions and handling the situation. They are the people who would be in the forefront in times of adversity.