Catching Up on New Years’ Planning
There are some industries which always find themselves thinking a season or more ahead. Fashion businesses, marketers, many manufacturing companies, and, yes, recruiters, will always be thinking about what might come next. Our businesses have a huge focus on lead time.
If your business plan calls for you to implement, upgrade, or migrate between ERPs in early 2022, do you have the personnel in place yet? Many of the best contractors already know which projects they’ll be working on for the first quarter if not the first half of the year.
Not having your team locked down at this point makes it unlikely – but not impossible – that you’ll be getting started within January.
There is still a possibility, of course – but it gets smaller every day.
If you’re not already planning for the new year, it’s not too late to start. Just keep the real timeline in mind. To hire the right candidate, you have several steps to go through:
- Advertise job role
- Await responses
- Review responses and compile shortlist
- Arrange interviews
- Additional rounds of interviews as needed
- Make offer
- Wait for the end of the candidate’s notice period
- Initial onboarding time
All those steps together can take a long time to complete. It’s important not to cut quality as you reduce the time taken. However, the only way to do that is to add expertise. For example, a specialist recruiter like IT Works Recruitment Germany can speed up the first three steps by comparing your job spec to a pool of pre-qualified candidates, then submitting the shortlist.
This also shortens the length of time interviews should take!
If you’re interested, contact us today to discuss your requirements.
