5 Spring Cleaning Tips to Help Your Hiring
Blooming flowers, brighter days, fresh rain, and tasty local produce. All telltale signs that Spring is here. Hiring managers know that with Spring in the air, it's time to start thinking about Spring recruiting.
Spring cleaning isn't only about scrubbing your oven at home. Spring is a great time to purge your hiring process. You finished handling the new year hiring rush, and now you can focus on refining your strategy.
Whether you're looking for seasonal staff or full-time professionals, now is the best time to organize your hiring. Follow along for our top five Spring cleaning tips to help your hiring.
Why Should I Worry About Spring Hiring?
Why stop at cleaning your place? Keep the momentum by cleaning up all aspects of your personal and professional life. Then, you'll set yourself up for success for the rest of the year.
Spring is a great time to attract top talent. January and February are generally the busiest hiring months for companies. Unfortunately, this also means you’ll have the highest competition for candidates. To avoid this, you can start most of your hiring in March or onwards.
You’ll attract some top talent who churned out of roles that weren’t the right fit, plus, most college students graduate in April and look for roles in early Spring. Giving you the advantage of a new class of candidates available for entry-level jobs.
How to Spring Clean Your Hiring Process
Assess Your Hiring Needs
Start thinking about where your organization is, where you're going, and what (or who) you need. Think about the employees you need to hit revenue projections or other goals. Then, consider if you need more managerial or office staff to handle the increase. You can create a list of job titles, descriptions, requirements, and timeframes for each new position.
For example, Cassandra is a Human Resource Manager for a manufacturing company. She is making a hiring plan for a large expansion in the upcoming year. The company's goal is to double its exports.
Her company wants to hire twenty Production Associates, twelve General Labourers, and five Forklift drivers. To support this, they will need to hire a Production Supervisor for the new employees and admin staff to handle the backend. She creates a list of all the new employees needed with the job duties, requirements, and when they need to be hired.
Spring Clean Your Job Postings
Next, look at your active and upcoming job postings and delete those that are no longer needed. Then, read the descriptions and requirements to ensure they meet your company's goals.
Cassandra has fifteen active postings at the moment and knows that she will be able to cut some. Based on step one's plan, she pauses five roles that she can postpone and deletes four that are not required. This leaves her with six jobs where she can put all her focus.
She updates the job postings responsibilities and qualifications to narrow down the applicants.
De-Clutter What You Don't Need
It's time to say goodbye to traditional resumes and interviews and focus on the skills that you need. These traditional methods don't show how a professional will perform in your organization. Thankfully, there are better ways to measure their capabilities.
A working interview allows you to bring a professional in to test them on the job. So, before you hire someone permanently, you know they are a good skills and cultural fit.
Cassandra currently spends most of her candidate search in interviews, which she wants to change. She decides to try working interviews. Her next step is to find a platform that specializes in working interviews.
Consider New Hiring Methods
It's important to be flexible in how you hire and to go where your ideal candidates are searching for jobs. If professionals have phones in their hands all day, that's where you should be targeting them. Newspapers and classifieds went extinct once job seekers started searching online. Now traditional job boards are on their way out too.
Cassandra uses online job boards to post her jobs but hasn't been getting the results she wants. She notices fewer qualified applicants applying and spends a lot of time trying to find them amongst unqualified and unsuitable candidates. She starts looking for another hiring method, comes across AmbiMi and decides to try it. She enjoyed AmbiMi's skill-based job matching that connected her directly to pre-vetted professionals.
Cassandra hires three temporary professionals on a trial basis to test them out. After a few shifts, she hires two of them permanently and extends the contract of the third pro. She decides to continue with AmbiMi for the rest of her hiring.
Check-In With Candidates
Whether you hired a candidate temporarily in the past or would consider them for a future position, it's important to keep in touch. You can stay up to date on where they are in their job search and when they are available. This will help you create a roster of professionals you can hire when needed.
Cassandra keeps a roster of eight temporary professionals, so she always has someone when needed. When a job opportunity arises, she can hire the best-fit candidate since she knows they are available and ready to start.
Bonus: Organize Your Space
Did you think we could talk about Spring cleaning with no physical cleaning? Although cleaning doesn’t directly relate to your hiring process; it is true that a clean workspace equals a clean mind. De-cluttering and organizing will allow you to minimize distractions and focus on hiring.
If you're planning a spring clean, de-clutter your hiring process by using AmbiMi!