Hiring Is Hard Right Now, But There Are Ways

Companies have struggled to hire new employees and retain old ones throughout the pandemic. Every business has its own work culture and brand, but the difficulties transcend sectors.

Thankfully, there are a few things you can do to boost hiring, from using modern digital tools to implementing tried and true methods. Please keep reading for a deeper dive.

Job Description Software

HR professionals struggle to create job descriptions in postings that hit on all the key skills, behaviors, and competencies a hire must demonstrate to thrive in that position. Even when they nail it, it consumes a lot of time that can be used profitably elsewhere.

Digital job description tools put difference-making job descriptions right at your HR’s fingertips, so you’ll get better results effortlessly.

The software also comes with a database of competency-based interview questions, so there’s consistency across processes that makes scaling up easy.

Finally, companies can leverage the core competencies at the software’s heart throughout the employee’s tenure by making them the ongoing basis of evaluation. Once they’ve identified the key competencies a position requires and that the candidate possesses them, using them to assess job performance makes perfect sense.

Companies can even string together every employee’s growth trajectory to make informed decisions about succession planning.

Pay Higher Wages

Companies often get what they pay for. If you try to cut corners by paying employees less than they’re worth, you’ll face the consequences of unmotivated teams, high turnover, and other deep-rooted problems that will gladden your competitors’ hearts.

On the flip side, empowering workers by fairly paying them increases loyalty to the company. It makes people feel valued and like they have a future with the company.

Paid Sick Days

Throughout the pandemic, businesses that refused to give employees paid time off for health reasons suffered a double whammy. Sick employees can’t perform well, and companies that irresponsibly helped to spread COVID-19 rightly got criticized by customers and the media.

In some European countries, the concept of “paid sick days” doesn’t even exist because it would never occur to a company to make a sick person work. If your employees aren’t feeling well, don’t force them to sacrifice their health for work or risk other people getting sick.

Given how difficult it was to get North Americans paid time off even when they showed symptoms of COVID-19, they’ll appreciate working for you.

Be Flexible

Work has changed in fundamental ways, and there’s no going back. Remote work was inconceivable before 2020. Today, some people have become accustomed to it.

Perhaps they have reservations about contracting COVID-19 in an indoor environment, or maybe they prefer eliminating the expensive and grueling commute to and from work. Whatever the reasons, so long as they can do their job, trust employees to do it their way.

Business leaders know the nature and figures underlying their companies. But between the modern digital tools available and the permanent changes to work culture, a 20^th-century approach to hiring or retainment amounts to a competitive disadvantage. Keep the above in mind, and your HR problems should solve themselves soon.

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