When you are looking for new employees, you are probably looking to get the ‘best of the best’ on your team. This is why you are probably looking for people with talent or individuals with a lot of the right knowledge for your business niche. With that in mind, here are some of the best ways that you can encourage talent to come to you, or to make it easier to headhunt that special person who will help to take your business to the next level.
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Advertise in the right circles
Advertising in the right circles can help to get you the right result. This can happen in two major ways: it can help you see what is already out there and what you are competing against, and it can help job searchers look and find you more effectively. The audiences that you will want to include in your advertising targets are:
- ● Graduates in your field. They will want experience and a good wage as soon as they leave their field of further education in the sector that they have studied in, and of course, you can provide this.
- ● Look for people who are experienced, but for whatever reason might be looking for another job. Redundancy rates are high right now, and you can jump on that, use it to your advantage and test the waters, and even do some headhunting if you want to.
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Offer in-house training to help support them
Offering in-house training for key areas might be a great incentive to work for your business. Offer training that will result in AWS certification, which has become especially important (and has a skills gap) as more and more businesses move over to cloud services. This can be a great way to get younger people, such as cloud professionals on your team, and an excellent investment for the future, as you can also create and mold people who are new into the industry into exactly what you want them to be.
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Make sure your community is a safe space
Making sure that you show a zero-tolerance policy to bullying and harassment is a great way to improve your reputation among candidates. Workers are then likely to eulogize about how safe they feel when in the workplace, as, unfortunately, such things are quite rare. Getting your workers to communicate effectively with both yourself and your HR team can be a great way to help resolve problems, and getting a team of well-minded individuals who work well together can be a perfect opportunity for growth within your business.
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Offer a range of working styles
Offering a range of working styles can be a great way to help your business really take off when it comes to hiring. Offering flexibility on whether they can work at home, in the office, or even adopt hybrid working can be a great way to help your business open the doors to more individuals both far and wide. It can be a great way to encourage people of all backgrounds to work for you and means that talent does not need to commute to you every day, which in turn might mean that results improve as a consequence of not traveling two hours in heavy traffic to do an eight-hour workday.