| In a labour market where resources are hard
to come by, recruiting becomes essential. It is no longer possible
to just post a 'help wanted' advertisement and expect the resources
to line up at your door. Many organisations are constantly recruiting,
even when they do not have an immediate opening. Other
than advertising, have you thought of other methods? Be prepared
to expand beyond this, especially if you are trying to reach groups
of resources who have not been reached through your traditional
recruiting techniques. Dependent on the needs, other strategies
that include initial foreign transfer of technology and succession
planning may take place. Effective recruiting is to fully understand
the type of resources you need and what skills and knowledge your
resources need to succeed at your business. Skills are those abilities
needed to perform the job while knowledge is what the resource needs
to know to perform the job.
With PM Resources' customised assessment tool, Emotional
Quality Profiling (EQP), we could capture the behavioural
reaction of an individual to different situations. It describes
the individual’s basic self, behaviour under pressure and
behaviour under authority. This description is derived from the
following four behavioural traits:
- Use of power
- Social interaction
- Organisation of work
- Adherence to details
EQP is used to assess an experienced resource in terms of how and
when he / she:
- Best performs the job
- Can be motivated to achieve goals
- May need help to better perform the job
- May pose challenge to management and team members
- May be provoked to dissatisfaction
It is important at this point that you think beyond the traditional
resource groups from which you have always hired. With an ever shrinking
market and with an increasingly competitive economic environment,
you need to draw resources in from outside your traditional pools.
Recruitment efforts should be about trying to rebuild trust
with those who, for various reasons, have been left behind.
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