Top 5 Recruitment challenges of 2020

In the wide array of the talent acquisition process and continuous competition amongst recruiters, it is a challenge to grasp the candidate’s attention. According to recruitment statistics, it is evident that finding right candidates amongst thousands of submitted job applications is a struggle. With all the changes in the recruitment world and with increasing candidates in the talent pool, it often gets difficult to keep up.

1.    Lack of qualified candidates

One of the most common problems all recruiters go through is the lack of qualified and unprepared candidates. The candidates often have no idea about the job role they are applying for.

Candidates often view their employment credibility highly than it really is. The misinterpretation has caused recruiters to take a few extra steps in their recruitment process. Most companies take a length of interviews and verifications to ensure that the candidate meets the job requirements.

2.    Lengthy Recruitment Procedure

Recruiters must go through a certain number of steps to recruit. This process increases their manpower and destructs their time frame, from the moment the hiring manager makes a decision on what he is looking for. If you want the top candidates, you need to fasten up your hiring. The employee hiring procedure often goes through these steps-

1.    Search

2.    Background Check

3.    Previous Job Reference Check

4.    Several Job Interview Stages

·      How SourceGain can help?

SourceGain provides a digital recruitment process with at least 30% reduction in time to hire. We help in reducing the recruiter’s effort in all stages of candidate engagement and recruitment. Our digital process includes channelizing events for the candidates. Recruiters can measure their campaigns by knowing the people who are opening, clicking on the job requirements to read or applying/ showing interest We optimize the visibility to your open positions. Our unlimited job openings and the personalized email alerts make sure to capture the top qualified candidate that fits right to a job.

3.    Lack of communication between recruiters and candidates.

Re-targeting candidates and engaging them is one of the biggest challenges that the recruitment world is currently facing. With workload, it is difficult for recruiters to keep in touch with the candidates and engage them. It is impossible for recruiters to engage with all the candidates. Unfortunately, the candidates often lose interest or find another recruiter.

There are thousands of candidates applying for a single job, it is not an easy job for a hiring manager to keep in touch with all of them or clear out everyone’s queries.

·      How SourceGain can help?

We provide you with tools that attract, engage and re-engage your candidates. We look after short, mid and long-term engagement strategies to grow your relationship with them until the time of selection. SourceGain makes sure that your engagement with the candidates is up to date. We use condition-based actions to ensure that the communication between the recruiter and candidates is consistent. 

Keeping in touch with the passive candidates also helps with engaging with other possible candidates who they are in touch with.

4.    Building a strong employer brand

The recruitment market can be overwhelming. Candidates always look for a brand and culture in their future workplace. Often hiring managers are unable to provide superlative candidate experience as they should be during the hiring process. It creates a bad impact on the view of the possible candidates and can have a bad impact on the overall company.

Maximum of candidates skip the jobs opportunities due to the lack of the company’s information. One of the most common mistakes a recruiter make is not providing enough information. Candidates often struggle in learning about the company’s they are applying for. They expect to know the culture, reputation to several details. It helps them choose and understand what they are looking for in their future organization.

·      How SourceGain can help?

Source Gain offers a career page builder, created especially for recruiters. We showcase your company’s profile, your engagement with your current employees, your workplace culture. From highlighting your strengths as a company, we present your brand value and provides a great candidate experience to prospects. Our automated workflow allows recruitment process to speed up and gives the candidates a smooth, streamlined experience.

5.    Building talent pool proactively

A talent pool is a group of highly qualified candidates. It is an effective method of proactive recruiting. they're one of the keys to hiring top talent in today's competitive market. It’s easy to mistake the number of applications for quality. Talent pool whereas is a sum of potential applicants waiting for whenever you need them. Bigger the number, the better the candidates, the easier it's going to be for your team to continually make great new hires. The real problem is how to build that talent pool with high-quality candidates.

·      Leads from careers fairs or events

·      Candidates from diversity initiatives

·      Executive or corporate searches

·      Unsuccessful applicants that you'd like to re-engage 

·      How Source Gain can help?

With our modern recruitment software, SourceGain builds you a cover page for recruitment events. With SourceGain CRM, you can build multiple talent pools that can be filled on the go by your recruiters or automatically based on pre-defined criteria. Through this, the candidates can be segmented and will be ready for a targeted engagement experience.

Disclaimer- The article content has been referred by several legitimate sources on the Internet and this is the personal view of Author and his content team that includes free-lancer content writer. You can reach out to Author at rrahul@sourcegain.com or his personal cell at +91-95601-32502 if you have sought any clarification.