What will happen when you have to recruit hundreds of employees in just 3 weeks?
When companies have an urgent need to search for human resources to expand business or for whatever the purpose, the race against time in mass recruitment will always be a challenge for any employer and HR professionals.
Mass recruitment is a popular demand in companies belonging to a number of specific fields such as engineering and manufacturing. In addition to the pressure of time, the diversity of job requirements, and the quality assurance of hundreds of selected candidates will also create many difficulties for the person in charge of hiring.
Similar to other types of recruitment, Mass Recruitment needs to go through 7 basics step (procedure) as follow:
- Specify the requirement for the candidate (or the requested candidate)
- Develop a job description
- Identify and access the candidate source
- Screen the candidates’ applications
- Interview by email/ phone
- Schedule date for a direct interview
- Send the offer letter
However, in order for this complex recruitment request to succeed, the following factors require special attention:
- Coordinate different recruiting channels
In order to reach a large number of candidates, mass recruitment requires you to use many different recruitment channels instead of just through the usual one or two. Depending on the requirements for the position, you can choose from a variety of channels such as:
- Recruitment advertising (newspaper and online recruitment sites): to reach a large number of candidates, and improve the image and professionalism of the employer.
- University and vocational training system: This is a resource not to be missed for mass recruitment of low-level positions, not requiring much experience (entry-level positions).
- Job fair: this is a very effective way to attract hundreds, thousands of candidates for recruitment, and you can receive job applications and meet the candidates on the spot.
- Recruitment partners: If you cannot guarantee, the internal staff can finish the required job on time you need to look for a different company specializing in providing a reputable recruitment service to assist you. Professional recruitment service providers have access to a wide range of candidates whose employers are directly limited to and coordinate a variety of skills to ensure the quality of employers’ candidates.
- In addition, employers can also use the information available in the database from previous recruitment or review recommendations from current employees of the company.
- Preparing the personnel
Employers need to have a good preparation of personnel, such as building a specialized team to handle the entire recruitment process. The roles of each individual in the recruitment team need to be identified and specified. Clear responsibility for each staff involved in mass recruitment will help the company hire qualified candidates within a limited timeframe.
- Building the recruitment process
A strict recruitment process will save a lot of time, and help attract the right candidates for the right position.
In many organizations, the hiring process can be up to dozens of different steps. It is important for mass recruitment to agree on how many steps to apply, what the goal of each step is, and decide who is responsible for each step. In addition to the basic steps above, it is possible to add tests to quickly eliminate unsuitable candidates before conducting a face-to-face interview.
