How To Find Good Employees

Whether you’re an employer or hiring manager looking for an ideal job seeker, you know the patience and dedication that it takes to find that just-right candidate for a job position. At  DeLong Staffing Specialists, it is our aim to connect the right job seekers with the employers who need to fill open positions. Over the many decades we’ve been in business, we’ve learned a few things about how employers can attract employees who fit the bill while also adding positively to their companies. Here are our best tips.

Why Pay Attention To Your Online Presence?

Regardless of how that perfect job candidate comes across your posting, they’ll almost certainly look you up online. If they don’t have an exact address, will your website quickly come up as the top search result? When they click on your website and then visit one of your social media pages, will they get cohesive visual and stylistic cues? You want your online presence to give an air of professionalism while also speaking to your company’s culture and ethos. Not only should you be working on how you present yourself, but also how others represent your company online, via social media, customer reviews, and employer review sites.

What Is The Best Way To Optimize Job Postings?

If it’s an online job, it needs to play by search engine rules to be seen. This goes for websites, but it also applies to online job postings. If that is your preferred method of recruiting job seekers, then you need to pay careful attention to the language used in your posting to ensure that you are attracting top talent. First, use a keyword tool to find the terms that desired applicants are searching for, then find natural ways to include them in your online job posting. Look into using key search terms in the posting’s URL itself to drive job seekers to your posting. Precision is important when listing desired skills, qualifications, and responsibilities that the job requires. Avoid jargon if it won’t be readily understood by applicants. It’s also a good idea to always include the geographical location or to be clear if it’s a remote position. Consider including salary details, benefits, and other perks that an employee can look forward to should they be hired.

Why Accentuate Company Culture?

Whether you are searching for a candidate to fill an in-office or remote position, putting an emphasis on your company’s culture can help applicants to more quickly feel a part of your organization and spur them to apply. Include efforts that have been made to keep employees connected, engaged, and considered in company decisions. If you have built out your training program and your teams excel in communication, make note of it. Just like your website, your company’s reputation is one of the first things that applicants will examine online. You have the opportunity to be the spokesperson for the good that you’re doing–take it! 

If you have a large contingent of remote employees and are proud of the efforts you’ve made in team building, training, communication, and other ways of keeping them engaged, share the details on your website. Likewise, use a portion of your job description to list benefits and other perks available to remote employees.

How To Be Consistent With Seeking Employees

This is so important. Once you have a well-written, optimized job posting featured online, you’ll need to take the time to review applications and candidates daily, if possible. You aren’t the only company looking for that ideal recruit, and to be sure they end up on your payroll, you want to work quickly to establish communication and build rapport. An immediate response can be the difference between hiring the ideal candidate and letting them slip through your fingers, only to potentially end up being hired by a competitor.

Should You Keep Your Job Postings Local?

This depends on the type of position you are hiring for, but if you want to bring in local individuals, then you need to find ways to advertise open positions that target local audiences. The good old “help wanted” sign in the window or local newspaper ad might do the trick, but you may want to extend your search radius or diversify efforts. It could be that you operate in a niche sector and are looking for a specifically skilled individual. Large-scale, traditional job posting sites may not be ideal here. Instead, you’ll likely find more success working with a nearby employment agency that can help to bring in local talent trained in key industries. 

How To Use An Applicant Tracking System

Whether you are on your own or working with an employment agency to find your next employee, an applicant tracking system (ATS) is likely at play. These automated systems streamline and speed up the hiring process by doing the preliminary screening for you. Job seekers know to include certain information and favor specific formatting requirements in order to get ATS platforms to notice them. Take advantage of this existing way to organize and track applications and applicants for a more informed hiring process that doesn’t tax all of your resources.

Why Should You Ask For Referrals?

Your best employees probably know great people who may be looking for a job just like the one that you are hiring for. Bypass the majority of the recruitment process by setting up a referral program. Condensing what could be a long, difficult search and tapping into a much larger network are just two ways that referrals can help make your recruitment process easier. Incentivizing employee involvement with bonuses and rewards can improve your chances of finding a good employee.

The Benefits Of Using A Staffing Agency?

Finding good employees requires a staff and the bandwidth to run a full scale recruitment search, which can require a lot of time, energy, and resources. That’s where a , a temp-to-hire or direct hire agency is your best bet to finding high-quality local job seekers. Instead of hoping that your job posting gets seen on a huge online job board, next to thousands of other open positions in all sorts of industries, you can opt to work with a local, established staffing agency that deals with a few select sectors and handles all the legwork for you. Broad reach isn’t always what works best, especially if you’re trying to attract local talent for very specific fields. Beyond recruitment, a full-service job placement employment agency will also be able to assist you with job postings, applicant tracking, interviewing, and onboarding.

DeLong Staffing Specialists: Your Local, Cleveland Staffing Employment Agency

Finding good employees can feel overwhelming and can take on special urgency when you really needed that position filled last month. When you do decide to embark on a recruitment campaign, you want to make sure that applicants are both qualified and a good fit for your company. That’s a lot of data to crunch, especially if you’re already busy and understaffed. But you can’t risk hiring the wrong people–what to do?

This is where a full-service staffing agency like DeLong Staffing Specialists can save the day. Our trained, qualified, and experienced recruiters specialize in connecting employers and job seekers in the industrial, manufacturing, customer service/call center, accounting/finance, IT, office/clerical, and administrative job fields. We have been serving the Greater Cleveland area since 1983 and excel at finding the best local talent for your in-person or remote employee needs. To learn more about our process, contact us today! You can also feel free to request more information, and we’ll get in touch with you directly. We’re ready to help make your recruitment goals a reality!