Recruitment process

With technology evolving, the way industries recruit staff has also transformed from the conventional to a more modern way where employers advertise their job vacancies online through recruitment websites. However, confusing keywords that might be used by employers causes potential applicant to miss out their opportunity to apply for the job. Lack of details on the job description (read: Here's How You Can Write the Perfect Job Description), such as range of salary, also important to include so that potential applicant have clear idea when expecting their salary. Such problems could lead to a waste of talent. Therefore, employers should use concise key-words and descriptions when advertising job vacancies.

 

Interviews

The interview process varies between companies and sometimes they included unnecessary steps for their applicants. This will affect their performance along the process and might cloud the recruiter’s judgements on applicant’s true potential. Besides that, employers need to make sure that the recruiters on their behalf are very well informed about the qualities that they are looking for that suit the job. This could avoid the employers from hiring the wrong person for the job. Efficient interview process would also help to portray a good image for the company and the applicants would not be discouraged to try again in finding the right job for them if they get rejected (read: How to Tackle Your Top 3 Hiring Interview Challenges)

 

Underrated job

According to a survey on Employees’ Job Satisfaction in Malaysia, 61% of the total respondents were not satisfied with their income. The salary might be low or not sufficient to support their life with increasing living cost these days (source: Astro Awani). One of the main priorities for any company is cutting cost, however some tend to look past the fact that quality does comes with a price and in terms of getting the talent they want, they need to provide a reasonable salary for the employees. However, there are job positions that do not display a relevant salary, which causes potential applicants to apply for a different job. Here's a useful tool for setting the right salary: AJobThing's Salary Report lists popular job positions and its minimum and maximum salary according to the job market.

 

Despite other circumstances, the best company would be able to fill their vacancies fast because they are able to look beyond the resumes and identifies the potential of the applicant.

 

 

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