Success online recruitment require careful planning and clear step by top strategy. Mainly there are five steps for successful recruitment.
Step 1: What job you want?
Firstly, find out the vacancy you want to fill. Many employers start recruiting without identifying the position to be filled. This leads to lack of clarity which they realize in middle of interview with a candidate. This can result in waste of time of both the candidate and you.
The simple way to avoid such situation by preparing job specification. Job specification is written document which includes the duties and skills required, personal abilities etc. Properly prepared job specification will help you to find put the right person for right job.
Step 2: What person is handling the things?
Give the responsibility to the appropriate person, in the recruitment process. You need one person to select the job site, posting advertisement online, replying applicants, changes in resumes, etc. For all this you require a management and following up. Single task should be given to different person, but it is suggested that overall responsibility should be assigned to a single person.
Step 3: What job portal should be used?
Use different job sites to find the relevant candidates. Don\'t just stick to one portal. Using different portals will help you to get real good candidates.
Step 4: What to write in advertisement?
You should make sure that the candidates should find your ad and find it attractive to apply for it. So try to write good advertisement. Writing jobs on job boards is different from writing ads for recruitment media.
Step 5:what about the reply from advertisement?
Many times you get good candidates, but some times the reply are not good in terms of quality or quantity, then try to find out what is wrong with that and solve it. May be the salary is too low or you posted ad in wrong sector on the job board. Many problems may come, you have to find solutions for them. Talk about these issues to your client manager and ask him to give advice because they know every thing about online recruitment.
These steps will surely help you in successful online recruitment.