10 steps to attracting the talent of the future
- January 02, 2020
To face the future, we have to surround ourselves with good professionals. But how do we know what we need if everyday life is so changing? Some companies are already working with predictive models and others have not yet considered wheater they are attractive enough to attract talent.
Among the great risks that the future holds for the company is the lack of trained professionals. Many jobs are rapidly becoming obsolete and the labour needs of the coming years must be anticipated. But what professionals will be needed in the future? When do you start investing in a discipline that can grow the company but is just beginning?
Although the future is full of questions, today’s trends already point the way. Incorporating new technical and emotional skills, adapting to liquid environments and engaging restless professionals are some examples. In the years to come, we must prepare ourselves. Are you ready?
10 steps to attract talent
If you find it hard to attract talent, review your strategy, and find out what it is you can improve. Next, we review 10 steps that any talent recruitment strategy should include:
- The first is a major challenge for the Human Resources departments: Self-analysis. Think for a moment: Is the company attractive to well-trained workers? What strategy does it use to attract them? What specific professionals do you need? Are there job specializations for this? What should the company improve to attract talent?
- Be visible in the same media in which talent is found. The company must be proactive in the channels in which move the professionals it is looking for, be they social networks, university channels, thematic portals, events…
- To be a coherent company. And what does that mean? To have well-defined values.
- To offer an intelligent selection process that values the people who present themselves and takes into account, in addition to their own needs. Candidates should feel heard and valued and be clear about what they will receive from the company.
- Make sure to offer a participatory, creative, and challenging work environment, with competitive emotional salaries.
- Treat the staff with flexibility. Do you make it easier for people on your team to change jobs? Any professional can develop another specialty in-house or change departments. Very often great talents are hidden that can contribute a lot to the company.
- Hire different profiles in gender, age, nationality, interests, ways of seeing the world… Among them there will always be one who is capable of seeing changes coming or of otherwise facing classical problems. It also creates a vibrant work environment. Don’t you find it interesting to generate good debates on company issues?
- To have predictive models that indicate those profiles that the company will need and which will develop in the future. Besides, these types of models also allow us to anticipate the flight of talents. They analyze the life cycle of employees, their demands, and the reasons for leaving. It is an excellent way to orient the company towards its continuous improvement to attract and maintain talent.
- Make change a constant in the company. How to do it? It is more necessary than ever to be informed of the transformations of the world in various fields: scientific, technological, business, and social; to talk to diverse people, to attend events of all kinds, and to be connected.
- And finally, something as obvious as working in the company being entertaining and exciting. Workers have to feel as much in love with the brand as customers. What strategies do you carry out to make them feel that, with their work, they contribute to making the brand bigger, stronger, and more attractive to the world?
Are you prepared to face the changes of a talent recruitment strategy and attract new professionals? These 10 steps are just the beginning.
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