Employment Screening

4 Ways to Improve Your Hiring Processes in 2010

With the New Year, several questions come to mind about how we hire: “How can we hire better employees, keep our existing employees longer, and become a well-oiled machine?” It’s not an easy question to answer, but is one worth analysis and consideration. Taking these four steps toward improving the hiring and retention process will not only help your bottom line but will ensure a better workplace; one that is more stable and more efficient.

1. Review your staffing needs. As the economy has taken a nosedive, so have our number of employees due to layoffs and hiring freezes. Once there are gaps in our staff, the question needs to be asked: “Does that spot really need to be filled right now?” With many companies able to produce the same output with fewer employees, it is wise to review staffing needs and run as lean as possible. Once the economy begins to turn in an upward direction, relieving staff of some of the extra responsibilities they have been tasked with can then be considered.
2. Discover the joy of using a staffing service. With so many employees missing in our workplaces due to cut backs, layoffs, and hiring freezes, it is simply smart to find a good staffing company that can help you do the recruitment. Though many do not provide checking for resume falsification and usually do not perform employment screening, companies with years of experience generally have established recruitment processes and plans. They can help you evaluate your needs and come up with a customized recruitment plan. Whether for executive positions, clerical and admin jobs, engineering, or technical folks, staffing companies exist to help you recruit for precisely the right person.
3. When it comes time to checking someone’s background for resume falsification through the employment screening process, choose a company that has a proven track record. Nothing is more important than knowing that the people you plan to hire are qualified, so don’t take chances in this area. Employment screening firms like Accu-Screen provide services such as drug test results, criminal background checks, driving record information, degree verification and much more. Getting your report to you within 24-72 hours and guaranteeing accuracy is what makes them a cut above the rest.
4. Have a current training manual and process in place. It’s no help when the last time the training information was last updated 2 or 3 years ago (or even 12 months ago) so be sure it’s current. If it is outdated, you will be missing information, have outdated instructions, and the result will be an employee who will make errors out of ignorance. Ask the lead of each department to go over the training material for that department and update it as needed. Then, get every department within your organization all caught up and current. January is the perfect time to start the year off right.

Along with these 4 ways to improve your hiring processes, keep in mind that reputation is everything when it comes to finding good staffing agencies and employment screening firms. Respectively, from recruitment plans to checking for resume falsification, these two types of companies each offer their own unique and necessary services to help you hire right the very first time!