First Year Attrition:
A crucial recruiting metric and a sign of hiring success is first year attrition or new hire turnover. Candidates who quit within their first year of employment usually cost a lot to the organizations and are not fully productive. Attrition in the first year can be managed and unmanaged.
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Tech Recruiting has become very troublesome as recruiters overall are battling to track down talented candidates. As indicated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics projections, by 2026 the interest for programming developers will develop practically 3.5 times faster than that of different occupations. This implies tech recruiting is simply going to get more aggressive as time passes by.
To help you get a handle on what to watch out for here are few tips to polish up your tech recruiting strategy.
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Social hiring, employer branding, using AI, online assessment tools, creative hiring, proactively building hiring pipeline based on forecast, X-ray search … the list of hot topics being discussed by HR and Talent Acquisition professionals is very long. But are we just discussing these in seminars and conferences? How many of us are trying new ways of hiring? Or are we more comfortable with status-quo?
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Advice for recruiters in the IT industry who handle the hiring process.
As you may be aware, it is tricky to find and hire professionals for technical positions. We should think how to optimise this process by avoiding some the most common pitfalls. Here is an outline of the practical experience I have gained in the over three years I have been a technical recruiter. When I began, I had no inkling that I was walking straight into a trap! The recruitment process requires many skills and, to be successful, you will need experience with sales, marketing, and even psychology.
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When I got to know TASCON’17 is happening in Bengaluru, I made sure to book my flight and a seat in the event. This was the first ever TASCON event there with a great line up of speakers and an opportunity to network with folks from Bengaluru and learn a lot of new things. My expectations were raised when I saw the turn up on the day of the event and I must say TASCON’17 lived up to it.
Recently we participated in TASCON 17 – Talent Acquisition and Sourcing Conclave 17 in Bangalore. During the event, there was an impromptu contest consisting of 3 rounds – creative job description writing, search and a sales pitch for a whacky job.
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It’s ironical that I’m posting this piece right after #tascon17 (talent acquisition and sourcing conference). After yesterday’s sessions at the conference and meeting with a few industry sourcing stalwarts, I’m forced to rethink the future of sourcers in recruitment function. I’m not exaggerating when I say the title of recruitment sourcers (sourcers as known in the recruitment parlance) will be non-existent by 2022.. perhaps by 2020 itself!
Recently I got an opportunity to attend TASCON17, a talent acquisition and sourcing conclave held in Bengaluru (India). Now, the event covered a variety of topics, but the one which fascinated me the most was on the employer branding and how organizations can use it to attract talent. Here, I will try to share what I have learned from that session about employer branding and leveraging it to transform an organization into a talent magnet.
“Branding is a promise to your customer. Employer Branding is a promise to your current and future employees” – Kathryn Minshew
In a space where startups are booming and every company is on the look-out for the best talent, there has become a significant need for each company to construct its own brand. This is where employer brand comes into place. Employer branding is a term that has significantly caught on and has been the “it” subject in the industry for the last ten years. It is essentially an umbrella term that showcases an organization’s culture, values and most essentially, its people.
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