What does recruitment mean to your company? If it's simply filling a vacancy, then you're doing it wrong. Each and every single person you hire needs to be an asset to the company, able to deliver the skills you need, and offer their valuable input to benefit what you do. Below, we have listed the 3 most effective ways you can improve your hiring process for successful recruitment.
By Team Savant
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Suddenly, recruitment isn't as simple as it once seemed, is it? In a fierce job market where, according to Tribepad in November 2024, there are on average 48.7 applications per job role as advertised and the number of vacancies is dwindling, it's vital you find the right person for the job role. And this search extends far beyond what they put on their CV.
So once you have made your final decision, you need to check an applicant's suitability to possess their hard and soft skills and physical capacity to undertake the job role. And here's how you can do this.
Pre-Employment Assessments
Pre-employment assessments are not just a trend, but a valuable tool in the hiring process. The combination of skills and personality testing provides employers with a deeper understanding of how an employee can effectively perform in real-life scenarios, thereby assessing their strengths.
These tests can include
Cognitive ability tests
Personality and emotional intelligence profiling
Job-specific skills testing
Situational judgement testing
Medical Assessments
For many job roles and sectors, health checks are not only lawful but essential to ensure that people taking up a certain position are physically fit and well enough to take on the work they will be required to do.
A great example of this is vision and hearing tests for driving roles or those requiring the operation of heavy machinery. Other pre employment medical assessments can include physical capacity testing for manual or physically demanding roles and occupational health screenings to ensure that adequate adjustments are made to offer support under the Equality Act 2010.
Far from being a way to exclude people from job roles, medical assessments are to ensure people are able to do the work they will be employed for, and that employers can ensure the right protections and assistance are in place where required.
Cultural Fits and Behavioural Insights
In modern workplaces, you need to deliver a cohesive team that understands, respects, and appreciates each other, and as such, understanding if they're a great fit for your existing workplace will allow you to make a more informed decision on whether or not a person is worth hiring and will be an asset or liability. Not every person is fit for every workplace, and this is where testing, such as DISC profiling, can be beneficial. DISC profiling is a behavioural assessment that can help determine this suitability. It is important that employers understand a person's individuality and gain deeper insights into how potential employees communicate and their behaviour in different environments.
Again, used correctly, it can direct employers to find the right position within the company for a person to help them thrive and bring out the best in them, i.e., putting together a team that gets improved results or offering different job roles more suited to their personality.