The hiring process is an essential part of running any business. Whether you’re an HR manager, a small business owner, or the CEO of a large company, you will have to recruit workers at some point in your career.
Posting a job request on a website is something that everyone can do and, to be honest, doesn’t sound like a difficult task at all. The real trouble comes when you are looking to find the right person for the job.
To find the right freelancers or employees, you’ll need to use the right hiring strategies. How do you know you’re using the correct strategy?
If your strategy can be defined by one of these terms you’ll know that you’re following the right path: Innovative, relevant, people-focused, and driven by business needs.
Those are also some of our core values that have helped us achieve our goals by maintaining focus on what’s important.
Now, let’s dig a bit deeper into the subject.
What is a Recruiting Strategy?
A recruiting strategy is a plan of action to successfully identify, recruit, and hire high-quality candidates. These are basic starting points that can help you attract the job seekers you are looking for.
Strategies can go from basic methods like posting on job boards, to more advanced methodologies, such as using a recruiting company or creating referral programs.
Applying the right recruitment strategies is highly important if you’re aiming to build inroads into quality talent pools, encourage applications, and reduce the cost and time to hire. The best part is, you can implement recruiting strategies at every step in the recruitment process!
Still unsure about which strategies to choose?
We have taken into account all the strategies we use at Freelance Latin America to create a list of the 5 essential strategies you’ll need to find the right freelancers!
1. Understand How To Treat Your Candidates
A candidate’s first impression of your company is critical. You must make them feel welcome, and let them know that you’re excited about getting to know them as they are about being considered for the role.
One of our best recruiting advice is to treat interviewees the same way you treat your customers. That means you should be respectful of their time, be hospitable, and make yourself available so they are comfortable enough to be able to reach out with questions and concerns throughout the process.
2. Make The Most out of Your Job Description
Have you ever been looking for the perfect job and just when you think you’ve found it… The job description doesn’t tell you anything about the job.
To avoid confusion and disengagement with your JDs it’s important to be clear and make sure you provide just the right amount of relevant information without overburdening them. Remember, complicated or vague job descriptions won’t lead you to the employee you’re looking for.
To find it, you have to keep 3 things in mind: Ease, reach, and quality.
- Ease the comprehension of your JDs
- To reach as many people as possible
- And filter them to remain with top-quality candidates.
3. Implement a Referral Program
Providing incentives for referrals with bonuses and contests can create excitement and further motivate your workforce to bring the best talent they know into your organization.
How?
Have you ever had a great worker, so amazing that you wish there were two of them? This strategy can accomplish something similar!
Professionals usually make a habit of surrounding themselves with other highly capable professionals. You can take advantage of your referral program to boost this behavior and let your work team bring to your company the best people they know.
This strategy also has a hidden bonus: You’re encouraging at the same time a healthy environment in your company that will make you and your team feel like you’re not working with strangers anymore but more like a big family, like ours!
4. Use Social Media
Social networks such as Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn are always increasing in users and popularity. Each of these tools can be highly useful for businesses to target different kinds of candidates.
By creating a presence on social media you’ll not only gain followers, but those followers will also be your prospects, customers, employees, freelancers, and/or any other professional that’s interested in your service.
Be sure to create a presence on social media that will align with your values and employer brand. You can take our Instagram page as an example!
And if you still have doubts about how to craft the perfect social media page for your business, be sure to let us know! We’ll help you clear out any doubts and make sure to write an article about the subject in the future, so you can check it out as well.
5. Improve Your Interviewing Skills
Interviews are often the first direct contact a candidate has with the organization.
This first approach is a chance for both parties to gain as much information about each other. In fact, 83% of candidates say that a negative experience highly affects their decision to continue or not with the recruitment process, even if they liked the role and the company.
Try to always show your company’s culture in the interviews. Take the values of your company, express them, and share them with the interviewees to ensure you find someone who is both talented and a good fit for your company.
Bonus Strategy: Recruit with Freelance Latin America
The 5 strategies you just read are the ones we use the most when recruiting new freelancers. And this is how our HR outsourcing team puts them into action:
One of the solutions we offer to our customers is Recruitment and Placement, in which we use our recruitment strategies to find talent that fits your project the most and connect it with you to schedule online interviews.
We also offer our Freelancers an innovative, comfortable, fully equipped, and pleasant workspace to ensure effectiveness and facilitate remote online supervision.
Uncertainty is NOT a word that defines us.
Thanks to our cutting-edge technologies that track project development, measure time spending, team viewers, cameras, and microphones, ongoing work can be easily followed up anywhere and at any time.
You can always contact us to find the Freelancer you need. All you have to do is:
- Send us your project/request by clicking right here.
- Interview the candidates
- Choose the best fit
- See the results!
If you want to know more about the process of hiring the right freelancer make sure you click here!
Which strategy do you like the most? Have you applied to any of them before? Do you want to know more about what strategies we use to recruit freelancers? Send us an email at info@freelancelatam.com and tell us all about it!
