Every hiring manager has selected a worker who just wasn’t the right fit. Especially in hourly jobs with high turnover, the occasional bad fit is inevitable. But there are a number of things employers like you can do to raise the quality of your hires.
Keep reading for three simple suggestions on how to improve quality of hire and build the workforce you need.
Focus on skills
Want the best worker? Then focus on verified skills and experience… and ignore the rest. Too often, outside influences can make it easy to overlook the applicants who will perform best on the job.
We recommend evaluating experience and skills in an isolated way. Separate your knock-out requirements—what you really need in an employee—and ensure workers can comply with those needs. That’s the best way to predict whether or not a worker will be successful.
Throughout Employbridge, we use digital tools to initially review applications and match them to roles. Our industry-specialized recruiters then personally confirm that candidates have the technical and soft skills our clients require. These processes create efficiencies, maintain compliance, and reduce hiring risks.
For some industries, we conduct job-specific skills assessments and testing at onboarding and behavioral and situational judgement tests that ensure candidates are job-ready. Examples include:
- Warehouse and Logistics: Forklift certification, safety compliance, pick/pack accuracy.
- Manufacturing: Industrial math, assembly skills, machine operation knowledge.
- Contact Center: Typing speed, customer service scenarios, conflict resolution.
For Bluecrew by Employbridge, our flex jobs platform, only people with the right background and experience receive notification of open positions. That way, clients know that whoever accepts an assignment can do the job. And Bluecrew’s results speak for themselves. When employers hire using our algorithm, rather than an application job, they experience the following:
- 42% reduction in time to fill jobs
- 38% reduction in bad fits
- 8% increase in satisfaction with workers
Make speed a priority
Top job seekers know that they’re in demand, so they can be more selective than ever about what types of roles they want, what companies they want to work for, and what pay they’ll accept. This means the best workers are scooped up quickly, so employers who want to hire the best have to act fast.
Decreasing your time-to-hire is one of the most impactful options for improving the quality of workers you hire. If you’re waiting for HR backlogs or a traditional staffing firm to get back to you, chances are, your top applicants will find other employment. Eliminate barriers to hiring quickly, and you’ll see your quality vastly improve.
Broaden your reach
The best candidates are sometimes passive job seekers, who don’t have the time to wait for lengthy or taxing application processes.
At Employbridge, we reach out through other mediums to recruit hourly workers with the right skills and experiences for your jobs. In fact, we have a whole team devoted to finding the right people for the types of jobs we fill, using modern technology to reach out, offering them W-2 jobs and worker protections, benefits, and flexibility to bring them on-board. They’re then matched by skills, location, experience, and more to your job.
How to improve quality of hire with Employbridge
With more than 30 years of experience and our proprietary research, Employbridge can help you build a workforce with top-quality contract, contract to hire, gig, and direct hire talent.
Contact us to learn more about Employbridge’s staffing solutions or to schedule a consultation.
