When facing market competition, find the right talents to recruit is not an easy task. In order to attract future talents or to find those specific skills that you need, you have to open different channels that will finally allow you to find the perfect candidate. Nowadays, posting a job ad on your company website and waiting for people to apply does not work anymore. If you want to find the rare gem, then you must act smart.

1) You are not alone

In fact, you are not the only one working in your company, whether small or big. All your co-workers can be HR. Even if it cannot be literally true, asking them to help can really work. Moreover, encouraging them to recommend some good candidates, you will show them your trust and gratitude.  You can even motivate your team offering a bonus to those who will suggest good elements. Let them undertake the task in the way they prefer, as long as they abide by company’s culture. The essential is to spread information. You can also ask your most loyal clients for help, of course only those who know well your company and its values.

2) Open the door to interns

Proposing internship programs is the best way to discover young talents. In this way, you will be able to train a young student who will bring some freshness to your company. Strategically speaking, recruiting interns is good for your team and also for your company’s image. Moreover, companies that offer this kind of opportunities can develop partnership programs with the schools. Exactly like a sports club, you will have your own cradle of talents to train and shape the future.

3) What if you already know them?

Maybe the Holy Grail lies hidden in your company. To be sure about it, annual performance evaluations and interviews must be accurately done, so as to let you consider people in your team first. Maybe some of them want to advance in their career and in this way you will win their loyalty. That’s why when you are looking for a new profile, you should first inform your employees and permit them to apply.

4) What about the competitors?

Keeping an eye on your competitors and always knowing about their freshly recruited employees as well as those who are leaving is very important. You can also headhunt the talented employees still on board and try to hire them away. Be careful, because this method is not always considered appropriate. Contact them by LinkedIn, by email (I often use Email Hunter, a plug-in that allows me to track the email addresses through LinkedIn), or even by phone or Twitter.

However, if you receive a negative answer, do not persist, because it could affect your company’s image, but be always on the lookout.  In fact, there are not so many people nowadays willing to spend their entire life in the same company.

5) What about the recruiters?

Of course, they have a price but they can let you save precious time. In fact, as recruitment is not at the heart of your business, you will do your research only occasionally according to your needs. Recruiters are not like this: they are always on the lookout for talents. They hunt them on different social networks, recruiting websites, DoYouBuzz etc. They identify the talents, contact them, label them, they ask them about their availability and the positions they are looking for.  As information resources multiply, hunting talents become more and more time-consuming: you risk neglecting your main work while spending a fruitless amount of time on the social networks. Then, relying on recruiters to do your research may reveal the best choice, especially as they work on success fees: you do not have anything to lose and everything to gain!

 

In conclusion, there are several ways to find the best talents. Considering how fast our digital era evolves, you have to be patient but also smart in order to find your future brilliant employees before your competitors.