A man and woman in an interview and text reading "Recruiting Employees vs. Finding the Right Fit"

It’s time to evolve the way that everyone thinks about the hiring process. So, let’s start at the beginning: recruiting employees. One of the best ways to improve the recruiting process is to simply stop “recruiting.” 

That might sound counterintuitive, but you just need to look at it from a different perspective. While recruiting implies the generic practice of sourcing applicants for a job, “finding the right fit” is what we should really be doing. This takes recruiting a step further to source and screen applicants who are most likely to succeed and stay long-term.

Recruiting Employees vs. Finding the Right Fit

Whether you’re a hiring manager or a business owner, it’s important to stay up-to-date on the best hiring practices. Here’s a breakdown of how and why you should do it:

The Recruiting Process Is Outdated

Just because a certain way of doing something “works” doesn’t mean we should continue it. In fact, it’s essential to keep evolving, pursue better alternatives, and consider the paths less traveled. In this case, you should go beyond paying to post jobs on the same job boards, waiting for applications, and weeding through the endless list of resumes.

“Fit” Empowers Every Member of Your Team

When you focus more on finding the right fit and identifying the ideal soft skills, like communication and collaboration, you empower your entire team to succeed. These soft skills can often be more important than workplace skills or industry experience. A team member with several years of experience could be detrimental to the business by lacking the ideal personality traits, so it can be beneficial to consider applicants with little to no experience but have the right “fit.”

How to Identify Fit

Cellphones with fit scores to help with recruiting employeesIt can be difficult to identify the right personality traits via typical recruiting and screening practices, like interviews. Luckily, Sprockets’ AI-powered platform provides all the tools you need to find applicants who are the ideal fit for your team. You can post jobs for free to millions of hourly job seekers, send personality assessments with the click of a button, and see “fit scores” that automatically predict an applicant’s likelihood of success. The list goes on! 

Schedule a demo today to see how Sprockets can help you hire applicants who are the precise fit for your needs and improve employee retention.

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