Dont Forget One Key Component in Talent Acquisition -- The Talent

Dont Forget One Key Component in Talent Acquisition -- The TalentWhen candidates are left out of the loop, they move on, plain and simple.Tyson Spring, founder, and VP of recruiting with lever Professional, LP doesnt beat around the bush when it comes to recruiting top talent. Employees expect more from staffing and recruiting professionals, and they arent afraid to move on if those expectations arent met. In fact, 80 percent of job seekers say they would be discuraged to consider other relevant job openings at a company that failed to notify them of their application status, according to Workplace Trends 2016 Candidate Experience Study. And can you blame them? No matter your title, recruiter, staffer, or hiring pro, its your job to create and nurture front-line relationships with candidates. According to Spring, failing to do this will send qualified applicants over the edge. Every candidate has a breaking point where they decide that the position is not worth their effort. For recr uiters, the interview process can become mundane. However,we must remember that for the job seeker, it is not an everyday occurrence, he said. Talent acquisition isnt a frequent process for candidates. So, its your responsibility to identify opportunity and make a strong personal connection over and over again. In fact, 80 percent of people say theyd take one job over another based on personal relationships formed during the interview process, according to a recent Mattersight report. Given that,unterstellung connections have never been more critical.Unfortunately, without timely updates throughout the process when sourcing candidates, they will quickly disconnect and move forward with their job search. Dont let candidates slip through your fingers. Here are three talent acquisition tips to keep them in the loop and excited about joining your clients team 1. Stay diligentTalent acquisition requires strong attention to detail at all times. In Springs experience, any lack of understan ding creates a disconnect with candidates. Some people in hiring organizations lack a sense of urgency. Usually, theyre from a school of thought that treats a candidate as inferior, Spring explained. When youre recruiting top talent, diligence is the key to hiring the best of the best. For Springs company, without that diligence, a client wouldve lost out on an exciting potential candidate. Everyone who met the candidate welches excited about the potential. Then it got to human resources and someone pulled the emergency brake on any movement, Spring said. The candidate went from meeting five people in five days to going two weeks waiting for the next (and final) step.After 10 days, the interested candidate made sure the recruiter knew he had multiple options. Not only was candidate growing impatient, it made this position drop from first place to below third on his list. Dont wait for a jobseeker to tell you they have other options to make moves.Click To TweetOur recruiter pushed th e client to address the delay and to reignite the excitement. They requested an interview with someone in their product management group. This interview was more of a sales pitch to the candidate. It effectively bridged the gap and gave the candidate an inside look at the product, ultimately getting them energized about the position, he said. Thanks to one recruiters big push, the candidate was sold on the role and they came to an agreement shortly afterward. Springs story is a great reminder that no matter who is holding the process up, its your job to take on the responsibility and diligently advocate for candidates. 2. Update in stagesWith so many clients and candidates to keep track of, talent acquisition can quickly get out of hand. For Cristian Rennella, co-CEO and co-founder of oMelhorTrato.com, the solution for keeping job seekers in the loop even through the chaos of recruiting was with a standardized system. Three years ago, we developed an internal system that works lik e the Trello tool. It consists of several columns representing different stages of the talent acquisition process, Rennella explained. Each time a candidate passes a stage, we move the candidate to the next column.With Rennellas system, a candidate automatically receives an email informing them of their advancement from one stage to the next. Any additional information about the next stage is also included in the email, which makes candidates feel active and engaged in the process. Rennella went on to explain, This was a fundamental change needed to scale our startup. It reduced process times by 23.7 percent. And improving communication with candidates helping the conversion from candidate to employee improved by 18.1 percent.Every stage of the talent acquisition process is critical for staffing pros and their clients to make the right hire. It only makes sense to let candidates in on each stage and allow them to be proactive in moving the process forward. But remember, if the proce ss is taking too long, its important to update candidates about once a week to keep them interested. Recommended Reading Find out what talented candidates youre missing out on in the talent acquisition process. 3. Set the expectation Youve likely set expectations and goals for yourself. Suggesting quality candidates that clients hire and keeping a strong talent pool active and up-to-date are among them. While these are both important, your success in talent acquisition also relies on the expectations you set for yourself and candidates. Dana Case, director of operations at MyCorporation.com, believes setting high expectations and keeping potential candidates in the loop is the key to not only showing professionalism but also making your own tischordnung process run smoother. Setting high expectations for your recruiting process makes everything run smoother.Click To TweetI have found it most efficient to set the expectation of the process when you meet with them. Then, an occasional phone call or email helps keep them up-to-date, Case said. We recently admired a highly potential candidate and made the mistake of waiting to connect until after the weekend. Unfortunately, by the time we reached out on Monday morning, she had already accepted a different position that she was offered elsewhere. This is the perfect example of why you need to set expectations for follow-ups from the get-go. Had this candidate understood when theyd be receiving an update on the opening, they may have waited on accepting the offer to the other position.

Putting things off is the biggest waste of life

Putting things off is the biggest waste of lifePutting things off is the biggest waste of lifeSeneca said that.Here is the complete quotePutting things off is the biggest waste of life it snatches away each day as it comes, and denies us the present by promising the future. The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow, and loses today. You are arranging what lies in fortunes control, and abandoning what lies in yours. What are you looking at? To what goal are you straining? The whole future lies in uncertainty live immediately.Follow Ladders on FlipboardFollow Ladders magazines on Flipboard covering Happiness, Productivity, Job Satisfaction, Neuroscience, and morePutting things off?- ?not the productivity-related kind, but the existential kind?- ?pursuing what truly matters to us and living our best lives, is one of the greatest obstacles to a meaningful life.The reminder by Seneca to live immediately is thought-provoking. Its one of my favorite quotes fro m one of my favorite books,On the Shortness of Life by Seneca. Its uncomfortably relatable.If you live up to 75 years, and youre just 30, you only have about 16,425 days still left. We dont have all the time in the world, but many people live as if they do. They are frugal with money, but not with time.The insidious wasting of life takes distribution policy with the many seemingly small, harmless habits and decisions. The process is slow but the results are devastating.Most people tend to focus on the past we cant control, and the future we cant predict. They often dont realise how much time they are wasting until itstoo late.They are caught up in the same loop to even notice they are wasting life/time in the process.They show up for their work obligations but they are truly absent from themselves, mistaking the doing for the being. And they always have a reason not to take the actions that help them make the most of life.These urgent life concerns are more important now than ever?- ?and they are hardly unique to our age. In fact, they go as far back as the record of human existence. In his insightful 2,000-year-old book,On the Shortness of Life,Seneca reminds us of what we already know but so easily forgetIt is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested. But when it is wasted in heedless luxury and spent on no good activity, we are forced at brde by deaths final constraint to realize that it has passed away before we knew it was passing. So it is we are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not ill-supplied but wasteful of it Life is long if you know how to use it.Only a few people consciously live in the present every day. What you exchange even an hour of your day for matters in life.Find clarity in life and live intentionally. In her collection of short essays,The Writing Life,An nie Dillard explainsAre you intentional about how you spend your time? Do you postpone rich experiences because of a busy schedule?You could do a billion things with your life. But if youre unclear about the precise things you want in life, youll do a lot of unessential things and look back with regret.Seneca wrote his 20-sections On the Shortness of Life in 49 CE, the year he returned to Rome from his exile in Corsica, as a moralische verfassung essay addressed to his friend Paulinus. On living a busy life, he writesNo one will bring back the years no one will restore you to yourself. Life will follow the path it began to take, and will neither reverse nor check its course. It will cause no commotion to remind you of its swiftness, but glide on quietly. It will not lengthen itself for a kings command or a peoples favor. As it started out on its first day, so it will run on, nowhere pausing or turning aside. What will be the outcome? You have been preoccupied while life hastens on. Meanwhile, death will arrive, and you have no choice in making yourself available for that.The philosopher declares that we shackle ourselves to our labors, our professions. He shares a lot on how to appreciate life?- ?and how to use it.If you havent read it yet, go get it now.Its one of the most important books you will ever read about using the limited time you have on earth and living a meaningful life.Its the most definite call to action to live life nowThe greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today. The whole future lies in uncertainty live immediately, he says.The only reality isnowCarpe diem or seize the day, in everything you choose to do.The schlagwort was first uttered by the Roman poet Horace over 2,000 years ago. The message of carpe diem matters more than ever today.Stop worrying about the future because youre missing the best time of your life in the here and now. We cant change the past and we certainly cant predict the future . The only thing within your control is today.The only important moment is the present moment. Its natural to spend moments of thought in the past or in daydreams of the future.The danger is getting caught in both worlds.Were living in a world that contributes in a major way to mental fragmentation, disintegration, distraction, decoherence, says B. Alan Wallace.When your life is dictated by thoughts of the past and potential future outcomes, staying rooted in the present becomes increasingly rare. For anyone who is deeply worried about the future, here is Senecas piece of adviceEveryone hustles his life along and is troubled by a longing for the future and weariness of the present. But the man who organizes every day as though it were his last, neither longs for nor fears the next day Nothing can be taken from this life, and you can only add to it as if giving to a man who is already full and satisfied food which he does not want but can hold. So you must not think a man has lived l ong because he has white hair and wrinkles he has not lived long, just existed long. For suppose you should think that a man had had a long voyage who had been caught in a raging storm as he left harbor, and carried hither and thither and driven round and round in a circle by the rage of opposing winds? He did not have a long voyage, just a long tossing about.In any situation in life you will find happiness if you are prepared to make light of your troubles and not let them distress you.Consistently needing a reason to live your best life means youre forever putting your life on hold, forever delaying the chance to live fully.Closing thoughtsDont hustle your life along. The longing for the future and the weariness of the present is stopping you from living now.Busy is a decision. Choose to live your best life now. Presence is more rewarding than busyness?- ?the greatest distraction from living.By choosing to not put things off in life?- ?you are making a deliberate choice to show up for life, and open yourself to new opportunities.This article first appeared on Medium.