Hiring and retaining the best talent is as tough as it's ever been, with projections through 2014 indicating that, for the first time in U.S. history, the number of younger workers entering the labor market won't be enough to replace those who are leaving. How can you ensure that you are hiring talent? Read this whitepaper to ensure that your recruiting strategy is in the right direction with effective tips

1. Hire Great Talent
Know if your are on the
right path
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2. The starting
organization is
point
to
any
successful
Hiring the Right People
Hiring
great
talent
means
greater
productivity
&
profitability
With the best technology and resources, an organization will
struggle to achieve the requisite results without the right people.
The contributions made by the right candidate in terms of
productivity will far outweigh the cost of his salary

3. With these new recruitment practices and the far reaching implication of
bad hiring, the recruiters must constantly ask themselves one question
Am I hiring the Right People?

4. 1. Analyse the job you want to fill
A job analysis effectively evaluates the personal attributes
required to execute the job role
• This list is identified by breaking down a job into logical parts.
• Each job task is analysed basis parameters such as skill, job knowledge
and overall attitude
When you know exactly what talents are required…
You know what to look for and what to test for, then you know you are hiring great
talent.

5. 2. Focus on Employee Agility
Employer Agility combines
• IQ assessment – Technical ability
• EQ evaluation – Cognitive and social ability
An EQ evaluation offers a high probability index of
how well an employee may fit into your
organization.
If you are using both, then you are hiring great talent

6. 3. Use a Standardized Hiring Process
If your standardized hiring process includes
• Criteria-based screening of candidates
• A thorough background check
• Standardized assessments
• Structured interviews
…then you are likely to be hiring great talent
Hiring based on your company’s work culture, ethos and future plans turns out to
be more effective than hiring that is done based purely on candidate skills.

7. 4. Hire for the future
To ensure great hires you need to hire candidates who
fit into your vision of the organization’s future rather
than just today’s needs.
Although a new employee has to make economic sense
for today’s work, the best hires are people who are
future ready and not just people who have skills to get
work going today.
If you hire for today’s need and tomorrow’s vision, then you are hiring great talent.

8. 5. Create Great Candidates
While experience may be a pre requisite it cannot be a
substitute for a good cultural fit of the employee
Small organizations that are constrained by lack of resources
and brand power, may find it worthwhile to recruit new
candidates and train them rather than poach on existing ones
If you consider non- traditional candidates and engage the bright ones out there
then you will create great talent.

9. How to create great candidates?
Consider
Non-traditional Candidates
Many a time unconventional solutions to problems come
“Expand your definition of
what a good hire entails –
often the most promising
candidates sit on the
periphery of your sector.”
from people who may have a ring side view of the situation.
Efforts need to be made to meticulously engineer a diverse
and effective team.
Engage
Candidates
Having put together a worthy team, the task is to put
together a conducive system which enables employee
engagement

10. 6. Inculcate a sense of Self Awareness
• Periodic performance tracking and evaluation
• Identify good employees and help them to improve their
performance better
• The employees should be motivated to be responsible
and thus remain committed to their own improvement
• Regular workshops and skill development helps the
employee to be more confident in the work he does

11. How to hire great talent
If you
If you hire people who
• Use Psychometric Assessments
• see the big picture
• Apply an effective way to
• are passionate about that picture
manage,
track
and
receive
employee referrals.
• can contribute to the overall company
vision
• Engage your new talent in a way
to improve early performance
• are better at getting things done
and later reap the benefits
…then you are hiring great talent.
...then you are hiring great talent.

12. About Zalp
Empowered with breakthrough features that
tap into the full potential of Social Media and
an extremely user friendly interface, ZALP is
every organization’s perfect Social Employee
Referral and Social Recruiting Software.
ZALP helps organizations boost their employee
referral output by upto 72%
%

13. Why Zalp
7 easy and convenient ways to refer
The success of any employee referral program depends on one primary factor:
Employee Participation
ZALP gives employees not one but seven easy and convenient
ways to make referrals. This ensures increased employee
participation like never before.
ZALP’s social media integrated features make the referral
process for employees not only easy but also fun.

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