Hiring Mistakes

Making right hires is one of the world’s most crucial and critical job in the world. By ‘right’ means ‘the right’. Picture a right CSR you hire, you would get all your customers happy and satisfied. Your bottom line would improve dramatically. And now picture that you hire a bad CSR and all your customers go bonkers at your services. You see the difference. Now picture that you hire an efficient manager and all your work station will be thrilled with creativity, productivity and dependability. Now picture that you hire a BS manager and all your business would crash and explode from within. Don’t blame him, you hired that shit and you have to bear it now. Point is, every new hire is a reflection of our business’ current standings. Good hire means go forward and bad hire means go backwards.

Since we are an IT Recruitment Agency, we work with all types of companies and recruit their resources against all levels of jobs in Lahore. It’s surprising how increasingly and unknowingly poor selections are continuously being made. You know, one of our client’s newly hired managers did not manage to show up at executive meeting just because his dog ate their car keys and they could not find any auto vehicles to drop them at office. Hell of an excuse but again, don’t complain. You hired that shit and you have to bear it now.

It was a hell of carelessness, and perhaps we can afford it as well in a month or so. What about performance which is to be delivered every second, every day and every week in work life.

People even slip through the hiring carpet, not because they are smart but because you were quite easy to play with. Had they been smart enough, they would not be any performance issues going around later. Now again, don’t complain…. (You know what I mean) Everybody makes mistakes, but some peoples’ mistakes consequently hurt more and longer. We recruitment agencies in Pakistan are one of those people who are least expected to make mistakes. And this is why I suggest we better work responsibly or quit the chair. Help both ways and hurts least times.Here are some things that our recruiters should always keep in mind while making hiring’s.

Costs in Hiring

Cost of advertising the position

Time involved in going through 100s of applications

Time involved interviewing

Cost of training

Cost of benefits

Cost of Making a Bad Hiring Choice

Repeating hiring cost so soon

Cost of vacancy in lost productivity

Learning curve productivity loss

Tips

Use a script, use script, use script. It gives you control over the interview and better chance to listen and understand the responses

Focus on behavior communication, ask situational questions to understand that candidate’s personality and know what makes them cool. Example: When was the last time you played a mess at work? How did you manage to resolve it? What was the result?

Greatest Staffing Styles

Here is always complain by the employer’s that there is not sufficient resources to satisfy the needs of job market. Shortage of manpower varies from skills to skills. The recruitment landscape has now change to such an extent that it’s just has to match the role requirement between the two parties. Especially in case of senior level position the recruitment level works in this manner. Moreover contractual job is in more demand in employer’s market it is beneficial for them. But on the part of employee’s market these jobs are not considered reliable, but people are compelled to apply for such jobs.

Demand for specialized individuals

Here is a great demand for subject specialist in job market as these employees are required to fill the vacancies at functional side. Employers in order to get quality work are suggested to introduce work-life balance. More relaxing environment means more quality work can be delivered by the employees. Recruitment Agencies in Pakistan in this regard try to provide full time staff to accommodate their client’s company.

Employee retention

We have seen a great shift in outsourcing the business process in order to maintain a flexible workforce. Many companies are looking for a learner headcount, in so many cases they have to outsource some of their business process that also includes human resources practices as so many companies hire Executive Recruitment Agency.To increase the productivity is one of the greatest trends every company is following. But so many initiatives need to be taken in this read to increase the quality of the production.

6 Most Wanted Recruitment Trends

If you have not heard already about the new and exciting recruitment trends then you will get to know now. By getting info about these recruiting trends you will have the idea how you can target the audience that you requires. Employment market is always fluctuating, so sometimes we can see scarcity of the resources and sometimes there are plenty of resources in job market. Recruitment agencies have to see both, employers’ market and employees’ market as well. Their job is to align and match the job requirement between the employer and employee. So these agencies work as an intermediary between the both parties. So here are the six recruitment trends that every recruitment company needs to be followed.

1. The rising demand of contractual jobs

 

Here is always complain by the employer’s that there is not sufficient resources to satisfy the needs of job market. Shortage of manpower varies from skills to skills. The recruitment landscape has now change to such an extent that it’s just has to match the role requirement between the two parties. Especially in case of senior level position the recruitment level works in this manner. Moreover contractual job is in more demand in employer’s market it is beneficial for them. But on the part of employee’s market these jobs are not considered reliable, but people are compelled to apply for such jobs.

2. Demand for specialized individuals

 

Here is a great demand for subject specialist in job market as these employees are required to fill the vacancies at functional side. These technological and functional specialists are the need of employer’s, the driving force of any industry. Employers are very keen to hire these subject specialist experts; their hiring is done on a greater scale. These experts have the tendency to shift the economy of the country upward by implementing new ways and methods in the industry sector.

3. Flexibility in work schedule

 

Employers in order to get quality work are suggested to introduce work-life balance. More relaxing environment means more quality work can be delivered by the employees. Recruitment Agencies in Pakistan in this regard try to provide full time staff to accommodate their client’s company.

4. Employee retention

 

Following the new trends, employers know the value of the resources so they try their best to retain the resource. They know how much there is scarcity of resources, so it is better for them to keep the resources. Majority of the employer’s are focusing on employee retention. In this regard companies are providing opportunities to their employees to work and flourish by offering them to attend different professional training sessions to adopt and implement the new approaches to their companies. In this way employers are developing talent retention strategy to retain long term employment.

5. Enhancement of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO).

We have seen a great shift in outsourcing the business process in order to maintain a flexible workforce. Many companies are looking for a learner headcount, in so many cases they have to outsource some of their business process that also includes human resources practices as so many companies hire Executive Recruitment Agency.

6. Emphasis on quality work:

 

To increase the productivity is one of the greatest trends every company is following. But so many initiatives need to be taken in this read to increase the quality of the production.

Outsourcing a New Recruitment Trend

Outsourcing is a new recruitment trend and yes it has just hit the job market, people who will fall mainly in this category of recruitment, are the best and skilled person in their domain. These people are achievers, you can say industry guru, and they do not run behind the jobs, employers in fact run behind them. These are the ‘ideal’ employee, and every employer can only wish for such employees. Their resumes could not be found on any job portal, or in the record of recruitment agencies. The intended employer needs to find out them out of gust of the air. But these are the recruiters who finally help you out by performing the initial screening of the candidates so that you should not be mistaken in your hiring process. It is of course the recruiters who can save the good will by working on your behalf whenever it is crucial.

What does a recruiter do?

Good job agencies can define the criteria and can provide the guidelines that an employer requires to hire the manpower. This is the role of recruitment agencies to provide the accurate frame of work for head hunting like developing job description, job roles and responsibilities plus attractive salary package to grab the attention of the employees. Recruiters after developing such framework start hunting for those ideal candidates who have all such folds, like skills, expertise, personality traits and confidence that their client requires. At the end, Employment Agencies in Pakistan present the proposal of their client company arranges the interview and works as an intermediary to convince the candidate on the terms and condition agreed by their client company.

When is the need of hiring a recruiter?

 

For hiring the specialized person especially on executive level, that are very important positions to run any company. So Client Company always relies on IT Recruitment Agency when they are in need of experienced, career oriented professionals. The recruiters can bring the right talent according to the requirement of its client. If the company is going to hire the executives then hiring the recruiters is essential, because only recruiters have links and pro and know about the top talent, if the company is not hiring for upper level management then they can consult with staffing agency rather than consulting with recruiters.

What is the cost of hiring a recruiter?

 

Recruiters are hired on emergency basis, because the post on executive level is not so much in number and company needs such an employee once in a blue moon. But here is one interesting thing about the Executive Recruitment Agencies, if they are not successful in their assigned task or client is not satisfied then they are not paid as they expect. If the client company hires the professional provided by the recruiters then the normal fee is 20-25 percent of their first salary excluding other expenses like travelling expense they are the part of the basic fee. If we talk about the major difference of the function of the recruiter and recruiting agency then this is not the hidden fact that recruiters are specialized in hunting the technical or specialized person required for upper management, whereas recruitment agency only works for the job seekers. So the companies must have relationship with recruiters and staffing agency in order to hire the staff and executives.

Good CV is not Enough

You know that you are a fit for the job, no wonders if ‘more than a fit’. But the important question here is, ‘Do your employers know that?’ As of now, of course they don’t. They don’t know you, your qualifications, your experience and your skills. They know nothing about you and ‘CV’ is your one first shot to let them know that that you are. This is where and this is how you are going to first interact with your ‘would be’ employers and this is why it’s important to get it good, right from the start. Being one of Top notch Recruitment Agency in Pakistan, we cannot emphasize any more over having great CV.

CV does not earn Jobs, It earns an Interview:

Before we go down to nitty gritty of a CV, why not check with its importance in the first place. Every time there opens a job position in the world hundreds of candidates apply themselves against the same position, including you. Due to the urgency behind filling that very position, it’s practically impossible for 925 IT Recruitment Agency to call up every candidate and interview him. It’d take months if they dive down to this detail. So, they do a thing, a thing that allows them to screen the candidates and shortlist the most appropriate ones for the job. It’s the CVs which recruiters take as a reference for scheduling the job interviews. It’s not a brainer, only those applications make their way up which are properly constructed, properly presented and properly pitched. Considering this, it’s important that you do mention every important detail that’s important to your potential employers. You’d mention your skills, your qualifications, your experience, and your achievements in pleasantly presentable manners. You do it right, you’d surely be called up for an interview, lest you should be dropped out right from the first phase of a recruitment process which Executive Recruitment Agency or employers follow.

Do you have a CV – Is it Good?

 

It’s a stupid question. Isn’t it? Of course, you do have a CV. Can it earn a job for you? Now that is a question. Mind that, it’s not what you say; it’s how you say that. It’s not the details in your CV only that matter, 90% of the times it’s the presentation of those details that matters. A CV, for you, is a marketing tool where you have a chance to earn every big thing for you. And in marketing, it’s definitely alright to talk big about all small things. After this entire is what people pay their attentions at. A presentation is about aligning the details intelligently, formatting the patterns delightfully, and communicating the difference through make of the details.

IT Industry and Roaring Future of Pakistan

Despite every bad thing being happened to us in last 10 years, there is one thing special about Pakistan. Pakistan ranks 2nd overall in South Asia as IT-centric country and soon is expected to become High End technology solutions provider to the world. Thanks to universities, colleges and governments that they saw technology coming and they opened their arms for it. Today, IT industry accounts $2 billion with IT companies trending 30% growth annually, on average. With a skilled workforce of 110, 000 IT professionals, current growth rates tell that our IT industry would become 11 billion USD industries in next 5 years. That’s a big thing especially when looked in comparison with other countries who took 15-20 years to be what we are becoming in just 5 years. It’s Pakistan, people.

It’s not raining, it’s pouring, people:

From agriculture to education and from banking to communications, ‘digital’ has taken most respectable definition all around. New software houses are being opened, new technologies are being introduced, new milestones are being achieved, new trends are being set and the technology mass adoption is just electrifying every aspect of our social and corporate affairs. In this professional fiesta, designers and developers have outrun even the most prestigious professions including doctors, engineers and bankers. Designers and developers in our age earn everything more in terms of money, respect and rewards.Executive Recruitment agencies need special appreciation because finding people who made this happen was a real job that they did and are still doing. If you are an IT student or are an IT professional or even an IT entrepreneur, Pakistan means haven of mavens. A Recruitment Agencies in Pakistan can be your access to the pool of people that can lead your business right at the top of the game.

Hold tight, there is no room for mediocreness:

 

Serving global clients is not an easy feat. It takes innovative designers, rock solid developers, and savvy analysts and above all, digital communicators who could understand the values those clients abroad respect and expect from our services. Hiring people who know things like back of their hands is, that’s why, crucial. Being average is not enough, it’s dangerous in fact. If you want to grow, start hiring people who create, who know how to create and those who have created, already. Our neighboring country has millions of IT Recruitment Agency, no offence, but most is stuck in mediocreness and does little creative work. Much of their work is marked with ‘herd-following-herd’ trends and this is why they are losing their respect.

Make Yourself Marketable in the Job Industry

Now day unemployment is so common that nobody can think about a job right after first interview. Here are hundreds of applicants only for one position, it become very difficult to distinguish yourself from others. In other words to win a job is a ploy that could not be achieved easily. You can have a job success in this tough job market scenario if you have extraordinary skills like communication skills that can make you more competent candidate. Here are some ideas that can really help you to achieve your endeavor.

Join the school:

If you are qualified for a position then it will increase the chances of your employment. Employment Agencies in Pakistan refer only those candidates who have great interpersonal skills and qualification. For your employment prospects it is essential to enhance your qualification. No matter, if you are professional and don’t have time to join any school or university to get the post-graduate degree. You can be more qualified if you want your career enrichment, distance learning program can fulfill all your professional needs. Here are number of schools which are offering distance education classes. What is important for you to check out whether these schools and universities are authorized or not. For higher education and being a professional distance education schools are best. Don’t worry if you don’t have the money for higher education, you can easily got the degree by joining distance education school that offers professional degrees at reasonable cost. But make sure that you are not studying just to get the degree. You must have all knowledge, do research and make notes and convert your degree into higher salary or just enter in job industry that you really want to be in.

Perk up your skills:

 

Before getting in to any job industry, it is suggested by the 925 IT Recruitment Agency to rate your skills. If you have the skills that are befitted to your job criteria then it can increase the chance of job promotion or any new job offer. Learning new skills is always a great experience on professional level; it may be communication skills or technical skills that can update your profile and bring you into the good books of the employer. For instance being a programmer, it requires good communication skills to write a code by using C++, Java, so you need to improve your code writing skills just attend classes at your nearest college and become a proficient programmer.

Work for free:

If you are fresh graduate and finds no job opportunity then offer the employer free work assistance. It usually happens when you don’t have any job experience, although you have the skill set required for a job. Ask the employment agency that you are ready to work as a volunteer. To work as a volunteer is an opportunity to step in the job market. This is an opportunity to get inside and get the valuable knowledge in real-time environment and make lifelong contacts, here is every chance that this volunteer position can turn into full time job opportunity. Executive Recruitment Agencies recommend to the candidates that they must have interpersonal skills along with great confident personality. This is the way to attract the employers and most of the employers get convinced only because of your communication skills.

Happy Sign for Job Seekers

It’s a great challenge for the employers to find out the candidates of their choice. The initial problem for them is to access the potential recruits with a variety of skills. Here comes the need of recruitment agency which can trace creative, talented, responsive candidates. The purpose of hiring a recruitment agency for a potential employer is to hunt the best people whatever they may be but having the same criteria and caliber required by clients of recruiting agency. Such recruiting units play a very vital role in streamlining the careers and talents of the people. Thus it helps to establish the career flow in a more organized way.

Recruitment is essential for the growth of the business:

 

IT Recruitment agency has become the essential need for the potential employer. Recruiters hunt the talent on behalf of their clients. The recruitment industry now a day has a very powerful influence over Government and private sectors thus giving boost to employment market. The staffing is no more a big deal; hence these recruiting agencies can provide information to the career seekers in their job hunt. The social and economic status of a country can only be determined by observing the job opportunities.

Talent hunting by recruitment agencies:

 

On the other hand, recruitment agencies by knowing your potential as a candidate will refer you according to your talent. Thus making the grounds for you to avail the referred job opportunity. The role of recruitment agencies is to make your job secure and to give you a career break. Recruiters are committed to win for you a reliable and professional service. The job that can you win is the only one that match with your skill set and job expectation.

The happy sign for job seekers: 

So for the beginners it’s a happy sign they can win a job of their choice. Being driven by the need for platforms which offer an effective interaction with the employers to the career seekers, the Jobs in Pakistan can target the audience of the choice of their clients. So everyone can get the best job, what they have to do is to submit their document and let the recruiters do their work so that they can find our best jobs for them.Jobs for everyone this is the objective of recruitment. From entry level to executive level here are jobs for everyone. These agencies work directly with hiring HR professionals. The staffing is done from permanent to contract or contract to permanent level. These agencies have excelled all the traits to establish outstanding repute for having strong business understanding and placing the talent accordingly. Moreover they are successful in providing matchless bespoke client services with a great professionalism. Thus bridging the gap between employers and employee, Executive Recruitment Agency is a bridge that brings forth the brain drain and new talent before the employers. Here is a career dimension for everyone; none will be jobless and every employer can have the talent of their choice, it is their right to succeed and these agencies are playing their crucial to bring into light their potential talent. The nature of such agencies’ operation is to act on behalf of their clients like human resource departments so they do. So get ready to succeed.

Get the Right People

Like it or not, markets in which businesses operate have changed and the speed at which these markets changed have left many businesses out of the race. With technology being infused in every small to big organizational dynamics, businesses need smart people who know the art of their trades well better than the competition. And you know who the competitors are? World is at race against you – it’s the whole world that is your competition.

So, where you are leading your business towards?

 

Like you, every business wants to grow. You just cannot stop them doing so. To grow, you devise innovative strategies. You spend a lot of money in high-capital technologies. You get your processes organized; operations quality assured but is that helping you stay at the top of the game. So, are you at the top of your game?

Perhaps, you are not. Despite doing everything right, ever wondered why?

 

Nothing is secret these days. Anyone in your competition can implement the strategy that you cleverly devised. Like you did, anyone can buy and install the same high-end technology into their operations. In fact, they can do even better by buying more powerful equipment. So, when strategies are bound to be stolen and technology is almost the same, how can you still differentiate? This is the question that needs your attention. You know its answer and odds would start favoring your every little thing that you do for your business. Your people -- answer is your people. Being 925 IT Recruitment Agency, we are telling you that nothing can beat right people at the right jobs.

Do you have Right People working for you?

If you have the people who are good enough to deliver you the results that you expect from them, you are lucky. And if you have not yet, you should hurry hiring them lest you should moan. Businesses, especially IT businesses are often found in hot waters when it comes to hiring people. They are good at what they do and they do technology things. They are not HRs, so you can expect them having troubles while finding and retaining right people for their right jobs. And when they land on great talent, they might other problems relating to drawing their engagement initiatives which may include both financial and nonfinancial rewards. As said earlier, they do IT and this is what they do best. Payroll management services do not fall in their skills drill books. This is where they need outside help; a help from the people whose only job is to identify the top talent and build relations with them and help their clients in placing them into their jobs. These are employment agencies and they do nothing lesser than finding the top talent working in industries.

4 Intelligent Phases of Recruitment

With the arrival of new technologies and social media tools, the recruitment backdrop has experienced immense modifications. What‘s more interesting is that these ever changing technology trends are favorable for both recruiters and jobseekers. Recruitment and recruiting are the two edges of the same thread. Now people can easily be informed about the pros and cons of recruitment, that how recruiting is done by following a process. People can know be informed by using different channels like video interviewing, employee referral technology and ‘resume’s that provides quick intro of the individuals. The four easy steps I am sharing with you in this blog not only important for candidates but important for recruiters as well.

Repetition in job requirements:

 

Recruitment is getting complicated due to the extraordinary skills required by company clients. This makes recruiting process difficult and it takes double time. This redundancy in job requirement makes headhunting strenuous at both ends. To make hiring process more quick and fast, it’s time to integrate social media channels to make the hiring process more rapid. Moreover Executive Recruitment Agencies should have to devise their recruiting and social strategy to achieve the required results.

Find out some new job portals:

 

For Employment Agencies it is advisable to post the job on some good job portals, to get the potential candidates. Here are so many app that imports job opening from different job portals of your interest. These apps can download companies’ Application tracking system into a directory that can easily be accessed by the users. Jobseekers can easily share such info to all social media channels with their friends or can also email them.

Follow the wind:

 

If I say follow the wind I mean follow the trend that has occupied the job market. Gone are the days when newspaper was the only source of information. This is the era of social media when information is coming from all the ways to you. Recruitment agencies are using this social plug-ins for posting the jobs, thus expanding the community and in direct contact with employees. Here is a good chance for recruiters to hunt top talent from twitter by posting tweet of 140 characters. The best platform to filter the candidates and to find out new lead is twitter. You can get the best out of it if you know how smartly you have to use social media channels.

Go viral:

 

Being an 925 IT Recruitment Agency Once you have shortlisted the candidates you can arrange a video interview of the candidates so that you can observe the body language and can read the gestures of them how much they are confident and enthusiast to join client company. Many companies now prefer to set up video interview of the candidates at initial stage. Here are some platforms that can offer the services of reliable digital video set up. The best thing to use this tactic is that it is very time saving. Well, it can help you out but you can’t get an idea about an interview on a video call, here is a need to meet people in person. So don’t depend too much on interviewing distant people by using video call.So by following these four easy steps you can boost up your recruiting agency.Certainly this is the way to grab the talent.

Five Benefits of Online Recruitment

Online recruitment has revolutionized the recruitment industry that benefits both employer and job seekers and ultimately accelerates the recruitment process. Thus online recruitment is the era of quick hiring where employers can get quickly the potential talent. Online recruitment today is indispensable for recruiters and employers who use job portals as the primary source for headhunting, although this is a traditional hiring method but still its work, so job portals and career sites are the two edges of the recruitment equalizer. The penetration of the internet in our society has crossed the geographical boundaries, thus mobilize the recruiting process. The quest for hunting top talent is a quest to boost regional economy in reality.

Online recruitment is time saving:

 

It is the charisma of online recruitment that you can search for job twenty four hours a day. The real-time interaction of employers with employees. The Executive Recruitment Agencies and employers can easily access to the jobseekers, and job seekers can easily find the jobs as well as recruiters on these career sites. Candidates can upload their resume on these career sites and their resume goes public immediately. Whereas a newspaper ad takes time to be viewed and sometime it can’t be viewed due to improper printing. Moreover a newspaper works like a weekly newsletter so it takes so much time. So recruiters are not to wait any more due to online recruitment they can do immediate screening of the candidate. So recruiting cycle working very speedily from posting to receiving the CVs, thus making filtering process and managing the contacts and workflow very easy.

Minimized the hiring cost:

Job posting is now inexpensive, as it was so much expensive before. Job portals allow posting the job at very low rates with the guarantee that the job will be viewed publically. Thus online posting made easier for every candidate to view the job of his related field, people can view the job immediately right after it’s posting. These job portals are 30%cost-effctive of annual fee that the Employment Agencies charge and the cost of newspaper or ads have the same cost.

Easy access to employers:

Employers can easily access the candidate through online recruitment, they can contact with them by using these pro-sites. These pro-sites are not restricted to any geographical boundary or any other parameters. Online recruitment websites maintains database of al career level and industries and regions. Huge money is spending to upgrade and develop this database, that’s why these career sites are always on the top when the jobseekers start searching for jobs.

Broadened the scope for candidates:

 

This IT Recruitment Agency pro -sites like LinkedIn has broadened the scope for candidates, now they can easily access the jobs and contact the employers at the same time. Through these sites they learned about the companies, locations they don’t know before. Moreover they come to know what the industrial trend of the specific field is, what are the skills an employer is expecting from the person of his caliber? and what his career level is. Through these job portals you can apply for those vacancies which have not been published in newspaper.