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How to Recruit Talent With a Small Budget

It is often extremely difficult to find and recruit the right talent when working with small budgets. Often organisations and HR recruitment departments will need to think strategically, in order to effectively find the greatest method possible to recruit on tight budgets. Throughout this blog, we have provided you with the top strategies and methods in order to effectively keep your costs low and recruit the best possible talent with a small budget.

Use Social Media

It is extremely critical when on a small budget throughout recruitment processes to be extremely active on social media. Social media speaks mass volume about your business to the people you wish to attract. Effectively investing some time into ensuring your social media accounts such as on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook are kept to a great level is extremely important.

This is largely due to social media being a candidate first look into a company. If the candidate sees a social media profile that looks outstanding, they are more likely to want to be a part of that organisation. Furthermore, employees working internally in an organisation will often be positive advocates for their fellow connections. This in turn leads to increased drivers of talent to want to apply and join the business.

Utilise Available Tools

To recruit talent with a small budget it is important to utilise all the available tools possible. A major advantage of recruitment in today’s business environment is that due to the age of the internet, many businesses are able to gain access to a variety of online recruitment tools that can help find the perfect candidates that match the position available.

A lot of these recruitment tools provide businesses with data processing and analytics functions that were not once available to any recruiter. Of course, it is important to utilise the provided data and make intelligent and sound decisions based on the information you are able to obtain through the effective utilisation of online recruitment tools.

Find Quality Candidates

It is very key to recruiting the best talent with a small budget to find quality candidates. Specifically, this means that HR recruiters should consider effectively seeking candidates based upon a certain criterion. For example, this may mean recruiting for potential candidates who have worked in similar roles or have had a large amount of experience in a certain field of practice.

This avoids managers utilising large amounts of time and money on looking for talent that may not necessarily be aligned with the organisation and the potential role. Moreover, when focusing on targeting and attracting only highly qualified candidates you are able to avoid sifting through hundreds of unwanted CVs, develop strong relationships and make the perfect hire.

Utilise Employee Referrals

Utilising employee referrals is an extremely great way to recruit talent with a small budget. Often existing employees can ensure that they boost your organisations push towards meeting recruitment goals. This is due to employees having the ability to find talent for you and recommend the best possible fit for a position.

Studies have often shown that when employees refer a candidate, the candidate that fits the organisation will likely be extremely satisfied and stay in the organisation for the long run. You may wish to run referral programs that entice employees to get involved in finding the best possible candidates and receiving rewards when doing so.

Offer Great Packages

When recruiting candidates on a small budget it is extremely important to consider offering candidates great perks and packages. Specifically, this means that you should offer potential candidates with highly attractive reasons to join the organisation. This may include offering flexible working arrangements, bonus leave time, various recognition and reward programs or even simple bonuses.

Offering great perks and packages ensures that your organisation is still able to stand out amongst the various other organisations that may be recruiting on larger budgets. Moreover, if you invest wisely in the benefits and packages you offer to these potential candidates you may reduce the expense of exceedingly high salaries as the benefits offered outweighs the need for large salaries.

Conduct Effective Interviews

It is extremely critical to ensure that you are able to conduct effective interviews to recruit the best talent with a small budget. This may be done whereby organisations should train managers to effectively know what exactly they are looking for when recruiting employees. This avoids unnecessary retraining of employees that will waste valuable time and money for the organisation.

Moreover, it is important to keep your candidates satisfied throughout the entire recruitment process, you should not add a lot of pressure on candidates as you may miss out on great talent through poor recruitment conductions that negatively impact top talent. Likewise, positively ensuring that candidates are satisfied with the recruitment process will lead to them becoming extremely great organisational advocates once onboarded into the company.

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Jake Amodeo
Jake.amodeo@employeeconnect.com