Recruitment Process Outsourcing Archives

Five Reasons Outsourcing During Peak Season Works

Peak Season for hiring has arrived, and companies across the nation are scrambling to find enough people to meet their business demands. Outsourcing those hiring needs can help you grow your business by using the expertise of professionals to grow your business and fill your needs within the company. Here are five reasons you should consider outsourcing during Peak Season.

Cost Efficiency

It’s no secret that hiring and retaining employees can be an expensive part of the business. Using outsourcing can save you money while adding an experienced resource. When totaling the costs for employees base salary, you have to include the accessory costs for benefits, 401k, and other expenses like employment taxes. With outsourcing, you can help mitigate these costs per employee, which can save your business a great deal of money.

Grants Ability to Focus on Core Activities

Every business has different focuses that make up the core of their company. Many times the needed functions that help a business run take away resources from developing those core functions to be better. Outsourcing allows your company to focus on building your core functions. Through cost-cutting and time savings brought by outsourcing, you can spend more time looking at the core of your business to improve and expand where needed.

Improved Customer Service Quality and Efficiency

One of the best parts of outsourcing comes from the new quality brought in by specialized outsourcing teams. Having a team that is customer service focused and can add their ideas to your core business model is an invaluable tool to create efficiency within your company. Since time is always a limiting factor, outsourcing customer service based work can improve the quality and growth of your teams through their training and planning.

Expert Knowledge from Market Leaders

According to a study by Deloitte, nearly half of companies experienced challenges with change management (46%), while over 25% reported challenges with job reassignments, retaining process designs and job changes, and process/service management. These challenges can be navigated through partnerships when outsourcing. Using the expert knowledge that companies like IntelliSource bring with their experience and ideas, you can discover the areas of opportunity within your business and create a plan to improve your company. An outside perspective can give you a new look at how your company runs and what needs to change to be efficient.

Business Scalability/Flexibility

Depending on the needs of the business, you may require services to help your company’s expansions in capabilities or functions. Scaling your hiring to your needs can be difficult without experience. Using outsourcing, you can effectively work with a partner to source, vet, and hire large or small amounts of people based on your needs. Beyond just hiring solutions, the ability to outsource functions or departments also allows for flexibility within your business to make sure you continue to grow.

These five reasons for outsourcing can help bring your company to new heights, but there are several other solutions that outsourcing can offer.

For more information about how outsourcing can help your company, contact IntelliSource today and lets work together to grow your business.

Processes

How Marketing Helps You to Recruit and Hire Quickly

Marketing has the potential to be a great recruiting tool for companies looking to hire top talent. Utilizing marketing in your recruiting plan creates the distinction of your brand for potential employees. It shares your story and culture with an audience that otherwise may not be aware of your potential opportunity. As our life continues to move to an increasingly digital space, reaching the underemployed or passive candidates is critical. Is your company utilizing marketing for their recruitment plans?

IntelliSource’s Marketing First Approach

We have worked with top companies and various industries across the United States to boost their pipelines through our Recruitment Process Outsourcing or our full outsourcing capabilities.

One of our customers came to us with a need to hire and staff over 600 new employees in a new geographic location. The company was focused on building out a state of the art fulfillment center and did not have the capability to attract enough candidates in the market. They were impressed with IntelliSource’s unique approach to candidate attraction. IntelliSource stepped in to assist in recruiting, hiring and screening candidates.

Our method includes a marketing strategy developed specific to our customer’s business objectives and hiring goals. We utilized market-specific intelligence and analysis of workforce trends. We took into consideration unemployment rates, competing businesses and compensation analysis.

Using our experience, we crafted and implemented a custom campaign that included traditional and digital campaigns. The goal was two-fold:

1. Attract both active and passive candidates through geographic and demographic targeting and

2. Adhere 100% to the customer’s brand standards and culture.

Social, Mobile, Digital

The plan for our digital campaigns included targeting specific geographic regions and demographic criteria defined by our partner. The knowledge from our partner about what had previously been successful in their area helped us to launch and monitor social media campaigns. We also worked to connect with potential employees via comments, chats, and direct messaging.

We have seen an increased use of mobile devices for job applications and campaign reach. To utilize this knowledge, we crafted our campaigns specifically to be mobile-friendly and for flexibility and scalability, we used a digital . We crafted appropriately sized multimedia for the platform we promoted on. We used SMS communication technology to reach candidates and inform them about the jobs. We researched and developed great advertisements to attract candidates based on created ideal candidate profiles. All of which helped our team toward reaching the goals set by our partner and ourselves.

Finally, the use of digital marketing over traditional marketing is changing how businesses promote their company. We used digital and retargeted advertising reached candidates in their social space and opportunities propagated to over a dozen national job search sites to receive premium visibility.

The results were tremendous as we were able to develop and launch a landing page that hosted 41,000 unique visitors and over 110,000 views. We generated over 1.6 million impressions, producing 16,000 clicks in a year. All of which translated into 4,307 applicants and exceeding our hiring goals over 100%.

With the right plan and support, your company can grow quickly and effectively. If you need help with creating your plan, IntelliSource can help! Contact us today, and let us craft a plan that will get you to your business targets!

Processes

5 Tips to Help You Prepare for Fall Hiring

As summer ends and Fall begins, hiring at retail and logistics facilities intensifies. These hiring issues can create a smaller pool of candidates for your business which can cause problems within your company. IntelliSource is an expert in hiring quality candidates, and we have five tips to help you get the right talent in your business this Fall!

Define Your Ideal Candidate

When hiring new talent, it is essential to determine what you need in a candidate so they can be successful within the company. Creating a Candidate Persona can help you with determining the factors that make a good fit for the job. Start with researching by surveying existing employees to see what they offer. You will find that a lot of them share similar traits that can help with the overall team cohesion. Include questions about their skills, interests, and goals to see what kind of people work within your team. Ask about the company and their thoughts regarding our values and culture.

Make sure you set up a list of info needed by your candidate in the position to help your searches. Info like where they currently work, what kind of job titles do they have, what their level of experience is, and shared goals for that position.

Using all this information, you can craft a persona that matches what you need in whatever role!

Craft an Interesting Job Description

Your job description is your company’s sales pitch to the candidate. Making sure you clearly state what the job title is can help you not only with candidates but with SEO regarding people finding your job. With there being so much competition in hiring quality candidates, what you offer that makes you different is needed to draw the type of people you want. Don’t use buzzwords. Instead, look up keywords in your industry that are being searched by potential candidates.

While you don’t want too much detail, you want your descriptions to be accurate and succinct. Start by talking about the day in the life of the position. What will they be doing day today? Where is their role within the structure of your company? Also, include details like salary ranges and experience needed to be successful in the job.

Train your Recruiting Team to Sell the Job

If your job description is your sales pitch, then your recruiting team is your salesman. Make sure you give them all the tools they need to be successful in finding and filling your roles in the company. Data such as the Ideal Candidate Persona can also assist them in understanding what it takes to be successful within the position. Information about the job is also beneficial. Taking your recruiters through the job site and showing them what their candidates will be doing can help prepare them to a better state and discuss the job. Know the benefits of the position. What set the position apart from others. Do you have a fantastic company culture with ten paid holidays? Does your company offer 401k matching? These are the types of things that can set you apart from the crowd and get others interested and excited about joining your team.

Determine the Best Outlets to Market Your Job

Knowing where to find the right candidates is a big part of the battle to hire. Several websites allow you to post your jobs and market them to find new people. Take the time to review your options. Indeed, Glassdoor and many other companies are available to post your jobs. Do your research to determine what’s works best.. Market your positions through social media for organic growth through your networks and business networks. Make sure you know what the benefits of each platform are and what you can get with your money. Some networks may work better for reaching specific audiences. Instagram, for instance, maybe more useful for creative recruiting with visuals over other networks that may look for just the job description.

Research RPO Services

RPO or Recruitment Process Outsourcing is the business process of an employer delegating their recruiting processes to a 3rd party outside of the company. Depending on what your company is looking for in terms of recruitment, RPO can help you to manage portions or the full recruitment process, which makes the whole process scalable based on need.

It is worth considering RPO services for several reasons. The costs of both time and money with maintaining a recruitment team can often be expensive, but RPO services can often help mitigate costs for hiring services. Some companies are also not prepared for quick and massive scale hiring during peak seasons can also be much more comfortable with RPO services. We have an article that discusses RPO services more in-depth and can help you determine if this service is something you should consider.

These tips can help you with your hiring needs this Fall season but if you need expertise and assistance, contact us today at IntelliSource. We offer a range of services to help your company grow!

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