Finding and hiring good people is hard, especially for small businesses. Finding the best candidates to fill your organization’s job needs will ensure that you improve employee retention! The LongJump Recruitment Agency Solution allows both internal and external recruiters to manage your pool of job applicants. Here is a summary of some of what is possible:

• Store candidate information: provides a central store for incoming application information such as resumes and CV’s
• Managing recruiters: allows you to manage external recruiters that you may be working with
• Profile creation and management: ability to create candidate and company assessment profiles
• Job and Skill matching: match candidate profiles and information to job requirements quickly and easily
• Website Integration: integrate web-based job inquires from your website with the Recruitment Agency Manager
• LongJump Platform Integration: share and use data and contacts from other LongJump applications such as email, calendar and task activities.

Here are some other tips and guidelines that can be applied with your use of the Recruitment Agency Solution and within your organization to improve your hiring process and employee retention:

• Make a Staffing Plan
  What exactly is the type of job that needs filling and how many of those jobs are there? What are the precise specifications and descriptions? Decide in advance what the salary and benefits will be. Create the necessary profile within the Recruitment Agency Solution and create time lines (Calendar) and budgets as part of the process.
• Find Good Candidates
  What type of advertising will you do to attract the candidates you – newspapers, trade journals, Internet? Consider using a Internet job board or a solution like vFlyer (that syndicates your job posting to all the leading online marketplaces). Use your website to collect information from potential candidates through the web-based integration capabilities of the Recruitment Agency Solution.
  
• Prepare Interview Questions
  A good interview has a purpose and a direction. Consider using a collaborative environment like OfficeSpace to manage the collection and assembly of interview questions. If the applicant has interviews with multiple team members, LongJump can easily hand the communication, scheduling and collaborative discussions that accompany such interviews. Here are some additional content and legal guidelines than can help in the process.
• Avoid Common Errors
  Try to avoid any and all of the following common errors. Asking leading questions. Making decisions too early in the interview. Lacking knowledge of precise job requirements. Letting the pressure of your duties shorten interview time. Doing more talking than the candidate. Failure to direct the interview.
• Check References
  If possible, check three references on each candidate. This demonstrates that you are using reasonable care in the hiring process. Careful reference checks ensure that candidates are right for the job and they are who they claim to be.