When You Should Implement a Group Recruitment Process…And How Can It Help Your Business.
Hiring in bulk can seem daunting and big undertaking. The real question however, is when you should consider implementing a group recruitment strategy, and how it can add value and depth to your recruitment process. We’ve outlined the below 3 scenarios, of when you should consider implementing a group recruitment process.
- You need to hire a lot of people, and you have a deadline.
One of the most common reasons we get requests to run group recruitment, is for project based hiring, in which there is some sort of hard deadline as to when you need to have the people in place. For our client, Junction Australia, this was certainly the case. They had a requirement to fill multiple Therapeutic Support Worker positions in order to meet the requirements for the opening of brand new care homes. Not meeting these deadlines would have had a massive impact on their business, stakeholders and partners, not to mention the youth they support.
- You need to grow your business, in a structured, strategic way.
You may have growth plans, tied into upcoming work, clients or projects. You know you need to up-staff, over a period of time. Running a series of group recruitment days can allow you to meet these requirements in the timeframe needed, without sacrificing unnecessary time or resources. Alex Fraser Group utilised our group recruitment strategies over a period of 3 months, to hire 10 truck drivers, and meet the upcoming demand from their customers. They were restricted as to how quickly they could hire their drivers, due to the availability of trucks, and so the recruitment strategy allowed them to stagger their intake to line up with the acquisition of new trucks.
- The roles you need to fill rely heavily on behaviour and ‘fit’ requirements.
If your recruitment criteria is heavily based in behavioural requirements, then a group recruitment process, such as an assessment centre, may be the most effective way to make your hires. An assessment centre allows you to observe your candidates through a series of tasks, that will show you whether or not they are a good fit for your business. For Junction Australia, this was incredibly important, given their positions required candidates with high level interpersonal skills, relationship building skills and communication skills. The recruitment days allowed the hiring managers to observe these traits in their candidates, in an efficient way, as they moved through a number of group based tasks. Alex Fraser Group required their candidates to be able to follow directions very closely, as such we were able to design activities that drew out a candidate’s natural levels of compliance.
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Whether you are meeting deadlines, growing your business or needing a behavioural based hiring method, group recruitment strategies can help you meet your business requirements in the most effective way. Speak to us today to see how Employment Office can design and run assessment centres on your behalf.
