If you want to find the right talent, then you must invest in developing the right strategy. However, this is rarely addressed, and most logistics personnel agencies in Montreal are finding it difficult to land their clients the types of candidates they will be pleased with for long run, along with the required talent to meet short-term objectives in the case of temp workers.
If this sounds familiar or similar to what you are currently faced with, then it may be a good time to have a look at your recruiting strategy. Something may be wrong somewhere, and here are the probable reasons why your strategy keeps failing time and again:
No clear objectives
Without clearly defined objectives, you will never achieve good results even if you were lucky enough to shortlist some of the top candidates in the field. Lack of objectives means that there are no goals, and if you don’t have any goals, you can’t know whether you are failing or succeeding.
Candidate shortage
Skill shortage is a problem of global magnitude, but it shouldn’t be your main reason for not finding the right candidates. A logistics personnel agency’s strategy will fail if you use skills shortage as an excuse for poorly identifying and sourcing for candidates. You occasionally read on LinkedIn about how companies can no longer find the right candidates due to skill shortage, and when you read such articles for too long, you tend to believe what they say. However, you are not limited exclusively to LinkedIn to find the right candidates. Broaden the scope of your strategy and explore other platforms, and you will not worry about a shortage of skills again.
Recruitment Process
With so much technology being incorporated throughout the recruitment process, so many companies are getting it completely wrong. Some agencies have very long processes for receiving applications from candidates, while others make it very difficult for the candidates to find information about available jobs. At this current age of dramatic distractions, one of the secrets to having a successful recruitment strategy is to make the recruitment process as simple as possible so that the potential candidates don’t spend so much time on submitting applications.
Ignorance
If you don’t believe that people are using Facebook for recruiting and that potential candidates are using mobile phones to search for jobs, then your sheer ignorance and evasion of new technologies, platforms and strategies, is likely costing you many solid candidates.