Top Tips and Strategies to Ace High-Volume Recruiting

Hiring was a lot easier if we go back 50 years in time. Employees had fewer options and stayed loyal to companies for as long as 10,15 or even 40 years.

This is the era of choices! 

With multiple companies to choose from and go to, it becomes quite a hassle for recruiters to onboard the right talents without losing them to competitors with a more attractive counteroffer. But who are we kidding?

The first step on the ladder of recruitment is a challenge in itself.

 It’s rare to find the right talents even with multiple convenient tools at hand. And high-volume staffing can actually raise your stress levels, given the deep challenges associated with it. The underlying challenges aren’t with the modes of talent search but with the very approach of talent hunting.

 If you are looking for strategies to lower your stress levels while getting the best talents through high-volume recruiting, here’s your one-stop guide.

Devil is in the Detail: Get to know your Requirements Better

While mass hiring may be seasonal, it is crucial to have a checklist consisting of pointers that help you understand your staffing needs better.

 You can start with the question, Why do you need high-volume hiring?

• Are you a seasonal business looking to get more hands to get your task done? 
• Is your organization witnessing inorganic growth with investments, expansion, or fundraisers, and do you need more people to manage the sudden influx of projects?
• Are you opening a new franchise at a new location or a new facility to multiply your revenue stream?
• For what duration of time do you need the employees to stay with you?

Once you have clarity of thoughts to the questions mentioned above, you will be able to look for your talents in the right direction. Again, the devil is in the details--the clearer you are about your requirements, the better.

Cut to the Chase: Tackle Key High-Volume Staffing Challenges

Setting out on a journey to hire a large number of talents in a short period of time is no easy feat. However, when you know what you are going to face, you can be prepared to sail through your journey seamlessly.

Here are the top challenges that bother recruiters during their journey to high-volume recruiting:

Lack of Proper Brand Communication:

While you need to get the right talent, in the least possible time, it is important to get your brand message out there. When you fail to catch the eyes of your potential talents, you might fall short of the number of applications you can skim through.

A pool of Applications and No Time to Swim:

All right! You have gotten your brand communication in perfect order and have multiple applications. But now, you lack time. High-volume staffing with multiple open roles can cause chaos, especially when you are walking on the tightrope of time and you need to skim through multiple applications.

Lack of Proper Experience:

Another key challenge often associated with high-volume hiring is candidates without relevant experience. Let’s say you are hiring five-hundred warehouse candidates for a particular task. You might get some warehouse applicants with proper experience, but with the rest, you might need to adjust.

These are just the key challenges. But you, as a high-volume staffing recruiter, would know the number of issues that tag along. However, there’s always a key for every lock.

Want the best solutions for your high-volume staffing challenges?

If you are embarking on your journey to high-volume hiring, we have got you covered with the top strategies and tips:

Resort to Automation:

Time is a valuable resource. Instead of manually taking care of the hiring needs, you can automate the process to hire more candidates in less time and improve your overall hiring efficiency.

 According to TrustRadius, nearly 55% of recruitment personnel are investing in HR tech this year, and about 49% of HR professionals believe tech is the solution to curb biases during the recruitment process. If this was the sign you were looking for, it’s time to go all tech-savvy with your hiring process.

Source Data and Derive Insights:

You know only what you see. That’s why we have various recruitment and hiring metrics in place. You can leverage this data to understand what is working better for your needs--paid talent search initiatives or organic search initiatives.

 In addition to this, you can look at the effectiveness of the channel that you used to source your talents to evaluate your conversion rate per channel.

Outsource your High-volume Hiring Hassles:

While it is a personal choice to opt for a high-volume staffing agency for your hiring needs, it is one of the best decisions you can make. The staffing agencies have strong networks, which you can leverage to get the best out of talents.

There may be multiple best practices to ace high-volume recruiting. But for faster and more efficient results, none can match the speed and accuracy of outsourcing.

 If outsourcing is your choice, contact Bear Staffing.