Company recruiting strategies - How to reduce your recruitment costs in four easy steps

Many companies find it difficult to recruit people with specialist skills and knowledge. For companies that recruit regularly, recruitment costs are becoming a major headache. It is one that can be addressed quite quickly though. Have you thought about taking control of this process yourself and doing some of the recruitment directly? This concept is not as scary as it sounds, it just needs some careful thoughts and strategic planning with somebody with solid recruitment expertise, and very quickly you should see your recruitments costs decreasing.

There are four main areas that could you address with regards to setting up direct company recruiting strategies:

1. Company website - this should be your primary tool
Looking at your website is the first thing a prospective employee will do to ascertain what you are like as a company, and whether they want to work for your organisation, and if you have any relevant vacancies - after all good candidates will have a lot of choice!

- Create an appealing website that would make a prospective employee want to work for your company

- Create a careers page/job page and simply place the jobs online

2. Your Staff - your best/worse sales tool
Your staff can be the best (and the worst) sales tool for your company, but if you trust in them and reward and appreciate them accordingly, they will recruit people for you.

- Have an employee referral scheme in place

- Communicate the schema to the business

- Inform staff of the positions you are recruiting for

- Recruit internally, promote your staff

- Encourage your staff to network amongst their peers

3. Sell not tell - creative job advert writing
Candidates are getting choosy so get their attention with your job advert. Don‘t simply place a job spec in an advert and expect good people to be attracted to it. You need to sell them the opportunity and sell them your company. If you were looking for a job and looked at a boring job description advert, would you pick up the phone to apply?

- Make it appealing and attractive

4. Keep what you have got - it is far easier to retain than recruit
A happy workforce is a productive workforce, so make sure you think of them first as it is so much easier to retain staff rather than having to find new employees.

- Make sure they are happy working for you

- Keep communication channels open

- Provide your staff with the opportunity to develop their skills

- Give your staff the credit and praise when they deserve it

- Encourage regular feedback from your staff

- Have retention strategies in place; it is absolutely essential to maintaining happy and loyal employees

There are many other ways that companies can reduce their recruitment costs, but the four steps above are a good starting point, and combined with good specialist recruitment advice they can all be implemented relatively quickly.

HAPPY RECRUITING:-)