How is hiring changing, why traditional methods won't work
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Traditional hiring strategies are becoming ineffective due to changes in employee behavior and expectations, as well as poor targeting and low relevance in job listings. Modern approaches emphasize the importance of employer branding, skill-based hiring, and enhancing candidate experience to attract talent effectively. Companies must adapt by focusing on culture, community engagement, and utilizing new sourcing channels to remain competitive in the talent market.
How is hiring changing, why traditional methods won't work
- 1. BE A BETTER PROGRAMMER
- 2. Why traditional hiring strategies won’t work today? www.hackerearth.com sachin@hackerearth.com
- 3. www.hackerearth.com sachin@hackerearth.com Traditional Channels (prehistoric) • Job listing in Newspapers • Temporary employment agencies • Employment offices
- 4. www.hackerearth.com sachin@hackerearth.com Newer Channels • Job portals – Naukri, Monster • Professional networks - Linkedin • Search - Google • Consultant and Agencies
- 5. www.hackerearth.com sachin@hackerearth.com aren’t these effective anymore
- 6. www.hackerearth.com sachin@hackerearth.com Employees are changing 1 Decrease in active job-seeking 4 Increased risk taking appetite 5 Culture taking precedence over other things 3 Do what you love 2 The millennial mind-set
- 10. www.hackerearth.com contact@hackerearth.com New age Hiring Employer Branding Skill based Hiring Candidate Experience
- 11. www.hackerearth.com sachin@hackerearth.com Employer Brand is the new black 83% Recognize employer brand impact 54% Have a proactive strategy 38% Measure employer brand for talent War for Talent will be WON by a strong employer brand
- 12. www.hackerearth.com sachin@hackerearth.com What is Employer Brand? 1.What the company does 2.Employee satisfaction 3.Messaging and Content (increasingly social) Things To Know
- 13. www.hackerearth.com sachin@hackerearth.com Employer Brand Communication 76% Companies use to communicate the Employer Brand
- 14. www.hackerearth.com sachin@hackerearth.com Have a Culture Code– Share it!
- 15. www.hackerearth.com sachin@hackerearth.com Content that attracts candidates
- 17. www.hackerearth.com sachin@hackerearth.com Make your leaders interact Ask Me Anything on HackerEarth by Joydeep Sarma, founder of Quoble
- 18. 1.Increased focus on hiring right people for the task. 2.Resume filtering alone is useless 3.Accurate skill based hiring needs a robust assessment methodology. www.hackerearth.com contact@hackerearth.com Skill based Hiring
- 19. www.hackerearth.com sachin@hackerearth.com Speak the language of your audience
- 20. www.hackerearth.com contact@hackerearth.com New sourcing channels 1. Traditional job portals donot attract the tech savvy crowd 2. Programmer communities like Github/Stackoverflow have become interesting source of talent
- 21. www.hackerearth.com sachin@hackerearth.com Candidate Experience Make it easy to apply Constantly engage Provide feedback Make it personal
- 22. www.hackerearth.com sachin@hackerearth.com Key Takeaways 1 Hiring is more pull than push – Employer Brand 3 Good Candidate experience is essential 2 Industry is moving towards skill based hiring
- 23. BE A BETTER PROGRAMMER
Editor's Notes
- #3: Does anyone recognize this device? Yes, it’s a pager. Invented in 1949, pager was a huge rage in the 60s and was a very useful technology in it’s days, but today practically no one uses a pager and there is no use for it either. The point I am trying to make is that, with time things change and one has to adopt newer technologies and practices. This will be the theme of my talk today, what has changed in the hiring industry, why traditional hiring strategies won’t work today and what are the news ways of hiring.
- #4: Let’s look at the pre-historic times of hiring. These were in the days when Internet didn’t exist, offline was the only way to attract potential job seekers.
- #5: Jobs market was one of the first segment to be revolutionized by the advent of internet. It was the rise of job portals like Naukri/Monster. A decade later we also saw the rise of Linkedin, and it continues to be a big disruptor in the hiring industry. In fact Linkedin was the first platform ever to introduce the concept of passive job seeking. I would not say Linkedin has passed, but the model definitely has to adapt to the massive changes taking place.
- #6: I can confidently say that most of you would agree with me, if I say that most of these channels are not really effective today. Hiring talent is one of the biggest concern of any founder today. And not only startups but larger corporates are struggling good talent.
- #11: There are 3 major trends that
- #14: Recruiting has always been social, but today we have one of the biggest revolution of the internet age – Social Media.
- #19: Skill based recruiting not only works for the employer, but even the employees prefer. Skill based hiring not only helps you understand what are the core skill sets of the candidate but it also gives the candidate an understanding of what kind of work they are going into.
- #21: Maintain transparency Focus on candidate experience Have updated careers page