Big Wave Digital is a niche digital recruitment agency in Sydney and believe it or not, but the digital and data job sector has reached a significant turning point. Gone are the days where there are a huge number of people looking for a handful of jobs. It’s the other way around now. Right now, there is a real shortage of expert candidates to fill the abundance of job vacancies.
Of course, it’s not all about the hiring process, it’s also about retaining that top talent you hired. Feel daunted by all this?
No need to despair, Dayna is here. Dayna brings and abundance of experience to this time old problem, of an imbalance in the recruitment world, and she offers some practical tips to help you hire top talent.
- Timing of your hiring decision
You will need to examine how long it takes your company to hire a candidate.
As an award winning Digital Recruitment Agency in Sydney we can’t stress enough, this one will set you apart from the rest. If you’re able to make a decision quickly, you will snap up great talent. Many companies seem unable to make a decision in a relative short time frame, often missing out on the right candidate.
Examining your recruitment process is a good place to start. Do you really need 10 interviews and 3-4 months to make a decision, or are there ways you can speed this up.
If you want to compete against those companies hiring the best, this is your place to start, putting new policies and procedures in place to help you hire staff faster.
- Training
It’s time to review what sort of training and upskilling you offer, combined with career progression. A candidate will want to know they’re not going to be stuck doing the same job for the next ten years.
This is another area where you can stand out as an employer of choice.
- Work Life Balance
If you offer a work life balance, make sure your candidates know what these are. Are you offering short working hours, or short working weeks, or simply one day off every three months.
Being vague is not going to persuade someone to take a job with you. Different people have different expectations as far as work life balance as concerned. Being clear upfront will make sure your candidates are clear on your expectations and work out if it matches theirs.
- Travel
Again, travel as part of the job can be a positive or a negative, depending on the individual. Be clear what the job offers.
- Company Values
Think what makes your company amazing and let the candidates know. People love to hear what sets one business apart from the other.
At the same time identify your company values and work out ways to assess how these matches with the candidates you’re wanting to hire.
It’s also a good time to review those company values and examine if they still fit with the current culture of your business or need revising.
Sure, getting top talent is becoming harder and harder, but not impossible. All it means for you, the employer, is to bring about a lateral and new approach to hiring Digital, Data and Tech talent.
It’s an exciting time for all of us.
Keiran Hathorn is the CEO & Founder of Big Wave Digital. A Sydney based niche Digital, Data & Technology recruitment company. Keiran leads a high performance, experienced recruitment team, assisting companies of all sizes secure the best talent.
