- Talent Acquisition
Talent acquisition during COVID-19
- The Resources Group, Inc.
Are your talent acquisition strategies keeping up with the new normal?
COVID-19 has changed the ways of working for employers and employees alike. With moves to an all-virtual environment, shifting roles and responsibilities, and a rising number of people in the marketplace applying for jobs, hiring managers are navigating a whole new normal.
With the shift to virtual, it’s a good time to review your talent acquisition strategies to make sure they are up to date. By taking some deliberate steps to update your policies and procedures, you will be better positioned to attract and engage the right candidates, condense the time to hire, and eliminate potential oversights or misdirects when it comes to talent management.
Here are 10 tips to consider as you assess your approach:
- Take a holistic look at your recruitment and interview processes from the candidate’s perspective and make sure your process aligns with the desired experience in a virtual world.
- Check the boiler-plate content on your job ads to be sure you are representing the right market presence to reflect a more flexible, work-from-home environment.
- Encourage more internal collaboration in your interviews process. It may help to bring in some fresh perspectives to help evaluate candidates in a virtual environment.
- As you adjust or develop new company goals, be sure to align your talent strategy to the new objectives.
- With a broader pool of possibilities, be sure you are sourcing and interviewing candidates from a range of diverse backgrounds.
- A skills/gap analysis will help you see if your employees have the unique skills (communication, tech savvy; self-managed) necessary for working remotely long-term.
- Build in ways to keep remote employees engaged, motivated, and developed so they can reach their full potential working virtually.
- With many employees juggling working from home and home schooling, you may need to adapt work schedules to be more flexible and shift roles to goal-oriented so people can accomplish.
- Review your employee policies to make sure they include the at-home worker.
- You don’t have to go it alone. If you’re struggling with a reduced workforce or have identified gaps in your approach, consider outsourcing this specialized work with a talent acquisition consulting partner.
Taking immediate steps to keep your talent acquisition and recruiting strategies aligned with changing environment will help you put your company’s best foot forward as you continue navigating the new normal.
