After working with hundreds of companies to teach them new age recruiting and employee development strategies, one thing has become clear: HR needs new tools in this environment.
With the workforce being short (somewhere between 6.5 and 8 million people for the next 10 years, based on demographic shifts), the tactics that HR has used for more than 4 decades to recruit their hourly workforce are sorely outdated. For 40 years, there were more people than there were jobs available, so if your HR team posted a good job with good pay and benefits, a line of applicants would reliably form… and you got to choose. Does it feel like that today? Your job ads that used to provide 50 excited applicants now often provide 4-5, and many of them don’t fit the bill. After that fails, what tools does your recruiting staff have left in its arsenal?
There are certain phrases that are clear indicators your HR team has tried everything that used to work… and they are out of ideas. Here are a few of them:
“Nobody wants to work anymore!”
“I saw on TV that it’s getting much harder to find good people.”
“We can’t get the right people to apply.”
“Young people just never stay in a job like people used to.”
“Nobody wants to work with their hands or work outside.”
“They all just want to be on their phones or play video games.”
“People will just leave for $0.50/hour if they can get it down the street.”
Have any of these phrases found their way into your HR conversations? If so, it simply is an expression of frustration from HR folks who have “fired every bullet in their clip,” and still can’t find great people. Remember, virtually all HR people were trained the same way: “Post the job and they will come.”
We have the answer, and would love to equip your recruiting team with new age strategies that have been proven to work by companies around the country. Wondering if we really have the answer? Please read reviews and recommendations from companies just like yours that had the same frustrations, and now are moving forward fully staffed for the first time in years.
