When Was the Last Time You Revised and Updated Your Hiring Process?

When it comes to hiring and other HR processes, like everything else in the business, these processes have to do be evaluated and changed over time. Business doesn’t happen in a vacuum — it happens in a dynamic, ever-changing environment, and that means HR experts and hiring managers need to look at their policies from year to year, to make sure that everything in them is the best it can be.

Here are some essential tips for making sure that your hiring process is targeted toward your current needs.

Target Roles and Skills

In some cases, when you go back and review a hiring process or set of hiring protocols, you realize that it’s drifted away from what’s really practical in the moment. Many fields and industries evolve, and in the digital age, they evolve quickly — as new tools become available, companies start adopting them rapidly in order to keep up with or outpace the competition. Other kinds of changes happen as well.

Look at the job roles that you’re advertising for, and make sure that the skills and tools that are there are updated to reflect what’s happening in today’s business world.

Clean Up Language

Some language in a hiring process is just ineffective. You may see elements of an old ‘personality test’ or other outdated hiring games built into a process that needs to be much more formal and straightforward. You may see interview questions that seem dated, such as those that apply to old technologies or strategies (do you know FORTRAN?), or those that seem picked from the pages of a leadership book that was written 30 years ago.

Revising and updating is a chance to get rid of language that has become clutter in a hiring process, and  to make hiring documents more targeted to a modern audience.

Changing Business Tactics

You may find that the types of things that you’re targeting on your job ads aren’t really what the company is looking for anymore. There may be a move towards a different sales model, or a downsized warehouse operation, or something else where you’re putting more emphasis on a new set of goals. This is another major kind of update that has to happen to hiring documents and everything else that you use to move the business forward each quarter. Make sure that you’re not using old documents to do business in an old way that no longer reflects what people are doing currently.

Another great tip for re-crafting a hiring process is to be proactive with corporate culture — think about the best things that your company has to offer, and make sure they are front and center in hiring documents. Job advertisements should really advertise what makes your business special, in the hopes of attracting the best talent and getting more interest from a local audience.

About Full Steam Staffing

Full Steam Staffing is a full-service staffing agency focused on providing clerical and light industrial staffing solutions to manufacturers, distribution centers and other organizations that need qualified, reliable workers. If you are currently looking to hire and grow your workforce, contact our team of skilled recruiters today!