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How eTalent Makes Finding the Best Candidate Easy

Finding the right candidate to fill a vacancy is not easy. It takes time and thought, but get it right and you will find your new employee fits right in and excels in their new role. Starting the process can be daunting, but with the right Candidate Management System (CMS) it doesn’t need to be. eTalent has over 20 years’ experience and understands and mitigates against common pitfalls and issues of conventional recruitment processes.

Attraction, Qualification, Retention

Successful recruitment is about more than just reading CVs and picking the candidate you like best based on instinct. Recruitment takes time and costs money, so there is real benefit in getting it right first time, and this includes retaining your new employees once they have started work. Knowing where to start can be challenging, so here are just a few tips on how to attract, qualify and retain new employees. How to attract the best candidates You can only hire the ideal candidate, if the ideal candidate applies, and this will only happen if you give them a reason to.

Thumbs Up For Candidate Scoring

There is a good chance that candidate scoring is already part of your recruitment process, but if not, it may be worth considering. Scoring candidates against set criteria stops you from relying on gut feeling alone. It removes bias and encourages objective decision making. This not only ensures that you end up with the best candidate for the job, but also means you can easily justify your decision should the need arise.

How Can You Retain Your New Recruits?

Get your recruitment process right and there is a good chance that you will end up with employees you want to keep. But, in today’s market, people move around more often and your best employees are likely to be in demand and approached by others. So, working out what you need to do to hold onto them is important.

Do Your Candidates Know How to Put on a Smile?

The hospitality industry is a customer-focused one; keep your customers happy and they may keep returning again and again, but don’t and they will go elsewhere. Supplying a great service comes down to many elements, and how friendly and helpful your employees are, is definitely one worth paying attention to. Your employees are at the forefront of your company – meeting, greeting and serving your customers.

Game Changers in HR Tech

There is no doubt that technology and the internet have made a huge difference to HR departments. It has speeded up processes, increased efficiency, reduced the need for paper and enabled employees to access information and input personal data themselves, whether in or out of the office.

An ATS Which Qualifies Candidates

Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), which enable companies to manage their recruitment needs electronically and without the need for piles of outdated paper, are forever growing, and few recruitment departments are without at least some form of one. By ensuring that candidates apply on line and that everything is stored in one central location, ATS’s give you better control of your recruitment; you can track the progress of candidates and reject or invite them for interview with the click of button.

Personality Is the Best Predictor for Performance

When it comes to finding the perfect employee, you need to consider a number of factors. Firstly, do they actually have the skills and experience required to do the job? If not, then they are probably not for you. But, skills can be learnt and experience gained; they are certainly not the be all and end all of everything. Personality drives behaviour and is a proven indicator of job performance.

Why You Need to Pay Attention to Rejections

As a recruiter, you will likely spend more of your time delivering bad news to unsuccessful candidates than good news to successful ones. This is not an easy or fun job and it can be tempting to overlook this part of the process, but make time for it and everyone will benefit, not just your candidates. Build a good reputation No one likes to be ignored and not letting unsuccessful candidates know that they didn’t get chosen for a role puts your company and brand at risk of a bad reputation.

Attracting the Right Talent

Attracting the Right Talent Selecting the right candidate from a pool of applicants is much easier if the right people have applied, but for this to happen your job advert has to have appeared in front of your ideal candidates and also given them a reason to apply.

Why e-Talent Analyses Behaviour As Well As Personality

Great employees are at the core of successful companies, but what makes an employee great is not down to skills and experience alone, it depends on personality and behaviour. For every company and job role there are a set of desirable traits; do you need an outgoing, dominant employee that will take the lead in situations, that is open to taking risks, and works well under pressure or do you need an employee with an ability to listen to others and a high attention to detail?

Flooded with CVs? How to Create Order from Chaos

Your job description has been carefully crafted and your advertisement released to the world and now you wait, wait for the influx of CVs. If you are wondering how you are going to tackle the mounting pile of applicants, you are not alone. Shortlisting candidates is one of the hardest parts of the recruitment process. There is no standard format for CVs and every candidate possesses different skills and experience, so how can you be sure you are shortlisting the right people and not wasting your time and money on the wrong ones?

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