5 Easiest Recruiting Mistakes to Make

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Good recruiting is one of chief factors of any staffing agency’s success. Just as there are ways to do recruiting remarkably well, there are always ways to do it remarkably badly. Here are the 5 easiest recruiting mistakes to make:

  1. Not hiring older workers because you are afraid they will be less productive.
    Despite this misconception, older workers are actually much more efficient than their younger counterparts.
  1. Not hiring those who are unemployed because you are afraid they lack the skills or experience.
    Everyone has to start somewhere. People who are unemployed may have experience or skills that are just waiting to be tapped.
  1. Not putting your company’s name and logo on all job postings.
    Not only should you treat everything as a marketing opportunity, but also what good is your job posting if applicants don’t know what company they are applying for?
  1. Running unstructured interviews.
    An unstructured interview will do two bad things for your company. First, it will leave a bad impression for the candidate. Second, a sloppy, unstructured interview will be inefficient, painful, and not allow you to learn much about your candidate.
  1. Making potential candidates go through an awkward application process.
    Unfortunately, recruiting isn’t a simple A to B of finding applicants and getting them to your company. There are many steps in between, and having the connections between those steps be awkward will be sure to turn off applicants and send out a bad impression of your staffing company.

Hopefully your staffing agency can learn from these 5 recruiting mistakes, and not fall into their traps. However, while recruiting is extremely important, complete staffing success is more than just recruiting. Your staffing company will also need a strong cash flow and a constant source of funding to do well in periods of rapid growth and seasonal slumps. For this, staffing invoice factoring is the best way to ensure your business has the resources it needs to meet all its goals and expand.