Hiring the Best IT Professionals in a Reviving Market
As the IT market is picking up there will be an increasing shortage of skilled IT professionals and a lot more opportunities available for them. Competition for skilled staff will soon grow and it will be more difficult to secure the best IT experts to your company. As a leader in your organization, you need a solid team of IT professionals to help you realise your strategic goals and allow you to focus on the most important elements of your own job. However, despite the efficiency and overall effectiveness of your hiring practices, there are often several critical mistakes that prohibit the best IT specialists from joining your company. This article aims to offer you a short list of guidelines that are often omitted when recruiting for the best people. One mistake that many IT Managers often make is taking too long with delivering feedback after an interview. As the IT market picks up it is increasingly more important to remember that a candidate has several job options and may not available to wait a week for your feedback. In the past I have seen many instances where companies have lost the best candidate to a competing offer due to the length of the decision-making process. It is important to avoid such a situation by being ahead of your competition and informing the candidate right away that they were successful in the interview. In addition to delivering timely feedback, it is also important that the feedback is detailed and honest. This will ensure that your IT recruitment consultant will know exactly how to supply a more appropriate option. Another critical mistake is not communicating any changes in their job specification to their recruitment consultant. As you refine your search or your needs change, you need to keep your IT recruitment consultant up to date as well. The sooner they know, the sooner they will adapt their search and find the right candidate for your role. Another mistake is often caused by over relying on internal recruitment methods to source complex IT requirements. Many roles in IT are often quite technical and it can be an error of judgment to expect to be able to conduct a thorough search internally. In the time it takes to find someone suitable and assess their ability, the perfect candidate could already be gone. To avoid this, it is best to work with an experienced IT recruitment consultant right away to make sure that you are ahead of your competition in hiring the best IT specialist. In the final part of the recruitment process, don’t forget about the candidate once they have signed their offer letter. When a candidate accepts an offer, there is a period until they start their new job where things can go wrong. In an improving IT market the candidates current employer will realise the difficulty they will have in finding another person with skills in the right technologies and will try to keep them. Also, the IT professional will continue to receive information about other opportunities from other recruitment consultants and could be tempted by on of them. To avoid all of this, it is important to keep in touch with the candidate so that they remain interested and excited about their new role. If you are interested in finding out more information on the IT/Telecom market, or would like to obtain further information on recruiting the right staff please contact:
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Chris Geras |
Antal International Sp. z o.o. |
