Turn HR Stratagem Unvarying with Trends

The job market gets highly influenced by new trends and scenarios – e.g. political, social, economical, technological etc. It is therefore required that employers and recruiters weave strategies to negate the effects of negative trends and turn them in favor of the business course.

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Analyzing the trends' affecting employers and recruiters in talent search:

The Housing Debacle and Trends of Home-based Jobs




Housing property values plummeted severely owing to the economic debacle. Even the most rightly talented job-seekers are not being able to rearrange to places that provides desired employment prospects. Mortgages are all in default, and funds are insufficient in paying-off their home loan debts, the job seekers are caught to their house locations only. This is posing a big problem for employers or recruiters that comprise of those industries that are by now exposed to a talent crisis. Employers must therefore plunge into possibilities of promoting telecommuting that allows their employees to work from home. This can be just the right tool to attract really talented work-group.

Job seekers turn unconventional in finding employment

Those employers depending on regular HR processes of screening and interviewing the candidates to induce the fit-ones to associate with the firm, may not realize that their ‘just the right' candidate may adopt unconventional path to your organization. They may get in touch with your current workforce, and attempt to doubtingly gain information on the organizational culture and practices by the way of social media profiles' or other means. While employers' may be fully occupied on focusing at turning your recruitment activities more effectual and specialized, you may lose out on tapping other avenues where these candidates can reach to you. Hence, employers must identify the likely sources from where these candidates may peek and work with their current talent to hone the impact of their organization. In the current technology oriented societal conditions, employers need to weight the social media networks and skills of their current talent-pool to attract the untapped potential candidates.

Social Medias' Impact on Employer Branding

Social networking is now omnipresent and the manner in which you prefer to be perceived is not possible, regardless of your flashy websites or promotional materials. People who got associated with you pass their opinions about their experience by the way of blogging, Facebook, Twitter, and other forums. Employers should thus assess their employer brand image by getting in conversation with the current employee-base. They must nurture positive opinion makers within their organization, to start with. Recruiters will continue to feel it as a daunting task to attract the right talent, regardless of altering times and trends and thus employers will gain only if they match their HR processes and techniques with upcoming trends.



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