Creating a Robust Recruitment Process in Your Tradie Business
In this new normal of business today, more than ever it is essential that you have a robust recruitment process documented, templated and ready to use at a moments notice.
Recently, I was coaching a tradie client through the recruiting process and it quickly became evident that the business did not have ant form of recruiting process in place other than recognising a need that they needed to employ someone quickly. Their process was reaching out to anyone that they knew of who might be looking for a job and then when they did identify someone having a 10 to 15 minute informal discussion, disguised as an interview, then only asking about what experience they had. Then they decided to hire because they had 2 arms and legs and could, maybe, do the job.
How often have you followed this process in your business, to find out a little down the track that you made a terrible mistake and should not have hired that person?
Unfortunately, I see this all too often occurring in businesses ,with it costing business owners significant amounts of money in the form of work not completed properly or having to be redone, lost time due to poor quality workmanship, unfair dismissal payouts, I think you get the picture …
In the qualified Trades Sector, a labour shortage has been looming for a long, long time due to younger people electing to take up opportunities in new technologies associated with the Information Technology Sector, rather than pursuing a career in developing a trades skill. Therefore, the pool of available “Qualified Tradies” is becoming smaller and smaller year on year.
So, what to do?
Develop a Robust Recruitment Process
It is important to realise and understand that Recruitment MUST be seen as an Investment and not as an Expense for the business. It may even mean investing on a job ad bi-monthly to test the market for who is actively seeking a position or career change.
A great team is one of the best assets an owner/operator can invest in for their organisation. The way in which organisation's find or “recruit” team members is important as excellent people can only enhance the running, systems and profit center’s of the business.
Here are the key Steps to developing your own robust recruitment process:
Step 1 - Identify the positions you want to recruit for
Step 2 - Create the position description(s)
Step 3 - Create the person profile
Step 4 - Create the Job Ad
Step 5 - Advertising the Job
Step 6 - Shortlist applicants for interviews
Step 7 - Conduct interviews
Step 8 - Shortlist 1-3 candidates for final interview
Step 9 - Have candidates complete the DISC & Motivators assessment
Step 10 - Conduct final round of interviews individually
Step 11 – Conduct Reference checking with nominated referees
Step 12 - Create employment contract
Step 13 - Make a job offer
Step 14 - Let other candidates know that they were unsuccessful
Step 15 - Start employee with an induction plan
Developing your Recruitment Process well ahead of the time you are ready to recruit is that part of working “ON” the business as opposed to working “IN” the business. Preparing the templates and other recruitment systems ahead of when you are ready to recruit enables you to react quickly to any positive changes that occur in the business and helps you avoid having to scramble to pull everything together at the last minute, when you urgently need to recruit someone.
In the New Normal of Business today, everything is happening at a faster pace, both positively and negatively, which means that businesses MUST be prepared to act swiftly and decisively, so they can make the most of any opportunity that arises. Not only will you demonstrate professionalism in your business and industry, you will boost your reputation that will lead to you becoming an employer of choice with quality candidates seeking you out to come and work with you.
In the field of Tradie Industries where the reality of suitably qualified candidates is diminishing, having a robust recruitment process and policy that you can pull the trigger on quickly when you need to recruit, will put you in a much better situation in your quest to find and recruit the best people into your organisation
If you have any further questions, please email me at philbadura@actioncoach.com … I am here to Help …!