Goodbyes are dreadful. Especially, when they come one after the other—from your employees who joined just 6 months back.

“They are just running after a competitive salary.”

“They are just underperformers who don’t have the skills to work with us.”

“They weren’t ready to work 12+ hours.”

Excuses are lame when your employee churn rate is high. Many times, employees don’t leave for a higher paycheck or because they prioritize a healthy work-life balance. They leave because of unorganized company culture, failed growth, and hampered emotional health.

If you picture yourself in this scenario, it’s time to look back at your processes and create strategies that help you retain your existing employees.

In this article, we talk about:

• 10 employee retention strategies
• 4 employee-first businesses to take inspiration from

Employee retention strategies for job satisfaction

Ready to learn the strategies that wow your employees and help you build an ecosystem for employees where work would be fun? Keep reading.

Strategy #1—Create an interactive onboarding process

The next step after the new hire accepts the offer letter—creating a seamless onboarding process.

With an engaging onboarding process in place, employees feel included by the company.

In a general onboarding scenario, companies introduce new hires to the reporting manager, assign them tasks, and share the resources. But the right way to onboard employees requires more education and effort.

For example,

At HackerEarth, new hires are introduced to each department and the work they handle through weekly onboarding video sessions.

To make the onboarding process interactive at your company:

• Set up a meeting where you can introduce the new hire to all the different departments of the meeting.
• Give new hires access to all the relevant resources they need to accomplish their tasks. For example, get them to set up their company email ID and invite them to the company’s Slack channel where all the major communication happens.
• Provide interactive training and immerse the new hires into your work environment. To do this, assign training to team leaders of each department where they talk about how their department functions.
• Encourage the buddy system. With a buddy on the side, the new hire has someone they can rely on and reach out to every time they have concerns.

Strategy #2—Recognize your employees’ hard work

How do you support your employees when they deliver the work—appreciate them or highlight their weaknesses?

Here’s the thing: you don’t always need big paychecks to appreciate your employees.

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For example, Dribble orders short cameos from celebrities to give a shoutout to employees for great work.

A few ways to show appreciation to your employees include:

• Check in with your employees regularly. Talk to them about non-work related things. A simple “how was your weekend” and listening to what they say is a great way to start.
• Celebrate their success with the entire team and highlight the things that you like about them and their work.
• Say thank you to make the employees feel happy and confident and to encourage them.
• Give them non-cash gifts. For example, sponsor a course they have wanted to take for a long time, take them to a fancy dinner, or gift them an exotic trip.

Strategy #3—Give your employees flexibility with their schedule

Along with the different work options, employees want flexibility in their schedules. They don’t want to continuously glare at their computer screen even in a remote job.

Ask yourself:

• Do they want to work remotely?
• Do they want to work from the office?
• Do they want to work from 9-5 or from 12 to 7?
• Do they want to take a break between work and drop their kid at daycare?

Sidenote: Offer your employees a flexible work schedule.

But how?

Here are three ways to introduce a flexible work schedule in your organization:

• Pick a 3-4 hour time slot when your employees are available—for meetings, messages, or time-sensitive tasks
• Offer employees the opportunity to swap one working weekday with a Saturday or Sunday
• Introduce the 4-day workweek policy

Strategy #4—Provide learning and upskilling opportunities

Companies with the motto to constantly empower learning for themselves and their employees grow effortlessly. But the sad truth? Only 40% of companies invest in upskilling their employees, according to a 2022 PwC survey.

By working with an organization, employees aspire for their financial and professional growth.

When you offer them upskilling opportunities, you strengthen their skills.

For example, Workday supports the development of its employees by leveraging its technology platform. In 2021, the company rolled out a skill-based HR strategy that allowed the employees to find their weak areas and work towards the specific skill by connecting them with opportunities within the organization—like gigs, new roles, or extracting skills from experts.

Just like Workday, you can offer upskilling opportunities to employees. Here’s how:

• Organize weekly or monthly training within your organization and invite experts from different departments to share their expertise
• Run educational workshops and invite external experts to share their expertise
• Sponsor a learning program for the employees based on their skills
• Buy an online course, watch it with your team and learn together

Strategy #5—Stick with remote work options

When Apple transitioned from working remotely to hybrid work, many employees started quitting their jobs. Why?

The hybrid policy of the company. In his letter to the employees, CEO Tim Cook shared that employees would be working from the office on set days—Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays and can work remotely on the remaining days only if approved by their manager. He also mentioned that the employees will be permitted to work from anywhere for up to two weeks per year.

Because of this strict hybrid work policy, employees started quitting their job as they did not have a remote or location-flexible work option.

Employees love working remotely. According to Flexjobs’ employee engagement report, 48% of employers are maintaining some form of remote work for their workforce.

Bottom line? Remote work will continue to exist.

Even if your company is moving to a hybrid or in-office work model, give employees the option to work remotely.

When hiring for new roles, highlight the different work options in your job description and communication the new hires and employees can choose from.

Strategy #6—Be transparent with compensation packages

Who doesn’t love compensation? And competitive compensation packages play an important role in attracting and retaining employees. Here’s the proof: 55% of employees leave their job for higher compensation, according to Lattice’s SOPs report.

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Many times, it’s the compensation package that makes the employees feel undervalued—because they feel their efforts haven’t been rewarded with the compensation they *actually* deserve.

So make sure you study the salaries other organizations are offering for the same role, check your budget, and roll out the salaries.

Strategy #7—Empower moonlighting

Picture this: your employee works as a web developer during the day and runs a small business selling handmade soaps at night.

Would you be offended at them for making extra income or be happy for them?

Moonlighting has gained momentum in recent times—but in a negative light. Saurabh Deep Singla, HR Officer of UpGrad notes:

However, HackerEarth has a different take on this.

HR Director, Swetha Harikrishnan says,

Employees who moonlight are passionate people and bring in multiple skills making them high-value employees. When employers support their choices, they feel valued and likely to work with the organization for a longer period.

But, the big question for organizations is how to support them while making sure they focus on their primary job too.

The solution? Create permissive moonlighting policies.

Here’s how:

• Set expectations that the employee will consider their day job as the primary job and will not allow other jobs to interfere with the performance of their primary job
• Make sure the employee does not work with your competitor while they are working with you
• Make sure the employee does not reveal the techniques, strategies, and programs they learned in their company either to competitors or any other organization
• Make sure employees get approval from their employer to conduct their moonlighting work

Strategy #8—Provide job security by improving the turnover of the organization

Who enjoys being laid off? Literally, no one! Layoffs happen when the company is reducing business costs, or shutting down.

In both cases, one factor remains constant—company turnover. If a company’s turnover decreases, it impacts employees’ job security.

To make sure employees feel secure, focus on improving the organization’s turnover. For this, companies need their employees’ support. That’s why it’s crucial for companies to educate and be transparent with them.

Here’s what you need to do:

• Educate your employees on how their contribution can help in increasing the business turnover
• Implement open book management practice and share the organization’s financial information with the employees

Also read: 4 Images That Show What Developers Think of Layoffs in Tech

Strategy #9—Practice two-way feedback

Two-way feedback makes space for the employer and employee to improve and grow together. With constructive feedback, employers and employees achieve two things:

1. Employees: They know the weak areas they need to work on.
2. Employers: They know how to make their employees’ experience better at the organization.

At HackerEarth, we ask for feedback from the new hires once they have completed their 15 days of working in the organization. They receive an email from HR and a notification from the bot on Slack where they have to fill out the survey—which they can do anonymously too. These surveys are conducted every month to keep a constant check on employees.

Doing this helps the HR team understand the employee’s experience in their early days.

To make sure the feedback culture keeps moving, encourage each department to give and receive feedback internally.

Here are a few ways how the internal team can conduct feedback:

• Ask your employees the “hero” questions to help them reflect on important moments and understand what it took to reach that point
• Run employee pulse surveys and anonymous QnAs using a reliable pulse survey tool to get your employees to share their ideas and concerns
• Conduct virtual town halls where employees can ask questions, share feedback face-to-face and offer solutions.

Strategy #10—Maximize performance management programs

With a performance management program, you help the underperforming employees polish and improve their weak areas so that they can perform better at work. This is a great way to uplift these employees instead of analyzing them over a one-month period and announcing whether they are the right fit for the company or not.

To ensure yielding the best results with a performance management program, here are a few best practices:

• Set goals with the performance plan. For example, based on the employee’s role, set a goal of 3 months to help them polish their skill
• Monitor the progress of the employee regularly
• Coach them and help them identify the areas they lag on and what steps they can take to be better

4 employee-first companies to take inspiration from

Here are 4 businesses that share how they have been building an employee-first company and community for their employees.

Motivosity: Form employee resource groups (ERGs)

One of the employee retention strategies that Motivosity supports is forming employee resource groups (ERGs).

Logan Mallory, VP at Motivosity says,

Also read: What We Learnt From Target’s Diversity and Inclusion Strategy?

Hable: Be vulnerable with employees

When leaders become vulnerable with their employees and show how they feel, think and function, employees get to know them better—which strengthens their bond.

Rosie Hall, Communications Manager at Hable shares the core values of her organization—honesty, and bravery—which has led them to build a safe space for their employees.

Monterail: Supports emotional well-being

Supporting employees emotionally comes in different phases. You could check in with them by talking about non-work related things and their challenges.

According to the People’s team at Monterail, talking about employees’ challenges and things that may not be working well helps them build a safe space for their people. They further add.

Also read: 7 Ways to Reduce Burnout in Your Tech Teams

HackerEarth: Encourages diversity and inclusion

HackerEarth is an employee-first company that focuses on diversity and inclusion.

D&I is not just another number that our targets have to hit. It is baked into the DNA of our company. We believe inclusion should be placed at the heart of everything we do as a company. The culture here is inherently non-judgemental.

We fiercely champion the cause for LGBTQ+ inclusion from the front by giving our people the correct language to use, asking them to call out behaviors that are not ok, and educating and sensitizing others towards these behaviors. We have also partnered with an insurance company that provides coverage for same-sex partners. We believe in investing time, maintaining an open dialogue, educating people on ‘ally-ship’ and support – and not restricting their education to only the marginalized groups.

We also continuously modify our internal leave policies to better take care of our employees. We added 12 period leave days per year to our policy, which can be availed depending on how the employee feels. Our paternity leave policy has been extended from the usual 5 days to a month—our way of ensuring that our Hacksters and their families can experience the joys of parenthood without any hassles.

No more goodbyes…

You have all the employee retention strategies to build an employee-first ecosystem—focusing on giving back to their employees. Start small. Audit your ongoing processes and strategies and find the areas where you need to rework. Is it communication? Bonding with them? Giving work flexibility? Or, focusing on their emotional well-being? Once you find out the right answer, go back to the retention strategies you read above and start using them as a framework in your organization.

In a mythical land far, far away…

Tech recruiters and talent acquisition specialists have been rumored to live in harmony with unicorns and purple squirrels. In this magical world of recruiting, a typical day looks something like this:

10.00 A.M. – Recruiters open their emails, check for job requirements and post one little job posting.

11.00 A.M. – Computers audibly shaking, you can hear the whir of thousands of applications pouring in!

Noon – You present the perfect candidate for the vacant role, gift-wrapped to your hiring manager.

Oh well, that was a good dream while it lasted! As seen above, there are plenty of misconceptions floating around about tech recruiters and how they should be able to rub a lamp, make a genie appear, and solve all the hiring problems in the world.

The actual reality looks something like a Taylor Swift song—sleepless nights, fear of not closing open roles under tight deadlines, and wistfully wishing for this magical land of recruiting to be a real one, with lyrics that go:

3 a.m. and I’m still awake, I’ll bet you’re just fine

Fast asleep in your city that’s better than mine

Recruiting teams have their work cut out for them and no two tech recruiters ever had the same journey in their career path. We’ve gone around and spoken to our internal recruiting team in depth to understand what their day looks like and what happens at each stage of the hiring lifecycle. Hop on, let us take you for an intriguing ride!

A special shoutout to our Talent Acquisition Manager, Preethi Saakre for all the insider information that shaped this blog and allowed us to go into great detail about the workings of a recruiting team!

Behind the scenes of a recruiting team in an organization

Although the overall structure of a hiring process remains the same, there can be slight changes when you are hiring at scale, conducting walk-in interviews, or looking to fill a small number of positions with 2 or 3 candidates. In this article, let’s take a look at hiring for a small number of roles.

Set the tone for the day

The first task on the agenda for the day is to check our email. Get an understanding of what roles are vacant from our hiring managers. And then set up meetings.

While we usually receive emails on open job roles, and top-level requirements to hire for these roles, we do have an in-depth discussion with our hiring manager. Such calibration meetings clarify important information like:

• A debrief of the job role we’re hiring for
• What does the ideal candidate look like for this role?
• What are the must-have skills and good-to-have skills?
• What tech stacks are we looking for?
• How many rounds of interviews do we conduct?

This will greatly help you to create accurate job descriptions and attract the right candidates for your open positions.

In a nutshell, coffee with a side of meetings!

Plan tasks and responsibilities

After our morning meeting, we spend some time answering emails, following up with candidates, and filling out paperwork. Now that we clearly understand for whom we’re hiring, we prioritize our tasks for the day, see which roles have tighter deadlines, and get to work!

Carry out market mapping for open roles

Armed with the requirements from the hiring manager, we begin to gauge the talent pool available in the market to see how many candidates would fit our industry-specific requirements. We do market mapping where we check for details that have been aggregated from several job boards like:

• Compensation range
• Years of experience
• The geographic location of the candidate pool
• Expected notice period
• Diversity of the candidate pool

While all this information is available on LinkedIn, filtering for diverse candidates is only possible on Naukri RMS. This is where you need to make the most of the Google search engine. Hiring for rather niche positions or specific skill sets calls for using boolean search strings and site-wide X-ray search capabilities for highly customized results.

Once you are aware of the kind of talent pool available for your particular open role, we need to go back to the hiring manager to let them know. Post receiving their approval to go ahead, start with sourcing and contacting qualified candidates.

Focus on inbound applications

Now that it’s settled resumes don’t fall out of the sky, let’s see how we go about getting candidates to send their resumes in.

The first thing to do is to distribute the job posting for the vacant position on all job boards. If you are using an applicant tracking system (ATS) like Trakstar, Zoho Recruit, and so on, most job boards would already be integrated with it, making it simple for you to market your job postings.

The candidates that apply through this outreach are tagged as inbound applications. Inbound recruiting relies heavily on your ability to attract candidates—meaning job postings need to be clear and concise, employer branding should be on point, and career sites have to be user-friendly. Prospective candidates need to be excited about working for your company!

Also read: 5-Step Guide To Gender-Fluid Tech Job Descriptions (+Free Checklist)

Source suitable candidates through outbound outreach

The second phase of sourcing for candidates is outbound hiring. This is where you search for and contact all active candidates (those currently looking for a job) on the available job boards like Indeed, Monster, and Glassdoor.

You can also use the InMail feature on LinkedIn or tap into Naukri RMS to source high-quality candidates.

Next, we focus on connecting with passive candidates. Especially when you are hiring for niche tech roles, passive talent would be a good bet. GitHub and StackOverflow are hotbeds of tech talent—you can see projects developers have worked on, languages and frameworks they are interested in, and so on.

This is a crucial step to getting closer to finding that elusive unicorn candidate, who you know will be just the right fit for the open role! A recent LinkedIn report shows that 62% of talent teams find more high-quality candidates through sourcing than inbound applications.

Also read: 21 Tech Recruiting Tools To Scale Your Hiring

Screen incoming resumes

All the inbound applications are captured on our ATS where every candidate’s data is parsed automatically from their resumes so it’s easy for you to go through it.

If we are hiring for generic tech roles, for instance, a software engineer with 0-1 years of experience, we directly send a screening test to the candidates. We check whether they have cleared the coding assessment or not and shortlist them accordingly. Then their profile is forwarded to the hiring manager.

For certain roles that can be tough to assess like front-end roles, even if the candidates have not entirely cleared the test, we forward the results to the hiring manager. They would further check for the candidate’s thought process and logic used while attempting to solve the problem before either shortlisting them or rejecting them.

Schedule interviews for shortlisted candidates

As discussed in the calibration meeting mentioned above, the number of interview rounds is already decided. All that remains is to set up interviews between the candidates and the hiring managers. If the candidates are mid-senior level developers or tech leads then their next round of interviews would be with the CTO and the CEO, accordingly.

For those who have been selected in these rounds, we next set up a meeting with our HR team to assess the candidates for culture fit.

This would be the last round of interviews. Post this, we begin discussing the compensation, perks, and benefits with the shortlisted candidates.

Sidebar:

Most recruiters would share a common journey up until this point in the hiring process. We carry out supporting tasks for all the above steps, in some capacity every single day.

Roll out the offer letter

Once the salary negotiation discussions are wrapped up, it is time to send the official offer letter to the candidates who made the cut. While this is an exciting part of the recruiting process, as we know, a recruiter cannot rest easy until— “Good hiring doesn’t end with finding the right person. It ends when the right person starts working for you!” – By anonymous

But not just yet. We have to do our due diligence first to ensure we’ve vetted the candidate thoroughly:

• Complete required background checks
• Call references and talk to the candidate’s previous managers

Getting verbal acceptance from your candidate before sending out the letter can increase the chances of them signing on the dotted line.

And then, **drum roll please!**

We roll out the offer letter to our candidate.

Nurture candidates to improve candidate engagement

Once the candidate accepts the offer letter and you are certain they will be joining the company, then proceed with your candidate engagement practices. We set up a buddy for them who will be able to familiarize them with the team after they join. We encourage the new hires to come to the office so they can meet different teams, understand how things work, and get a basic idea of their roles and responsibilities.

This helps make the “dreaded first day” easy for the candidate since they already know what to expect and whom to reach out to in case they are stuck.

Time for onboarding

A general practice for talent acquisition teams is to connect the selected candidates with the onboarding team, 10 days prior to their joining the company. This ensures the candidates have a smooth transition and have everything they need for the first day, including their laptop, email access, and other things.

To welcome your candidates and make them feel like they belong right from the start, send them company merchandise, goodies, and swag that they can use.

Also read: Streamline Your Recruitment Process With These 7 Tips

To understand a recruiter’s job in a nutshell, here are 7 things that the recruiting team at HackerEarth carries out on a daily basis!

No magic potion, just plain hard work

Well, we tried to bust as many myths as possible about recruiters and tech recruiting in general. The bottom line, our job is to match the best person to the role and hiring manager—we are the people who bring in the people!

If you think that sounds simple, we are here to tell you it’s anything but.

One of the major reasons for penning this article was to bring to light the amount of effort that goes into finding the perfect candidate. As you can see, it is a LOT. We do have some tricks up our sleeves but that’s the extent of it. No potions, genies, or wands are involved!

As always, happy hiring 🙂

New year. New you. New recruitment trends.

And with this, you need to tweak your ongoing strategies to find the best tech talent. Some trends will continue to stay the same while others will want you to multiply your ongoing efforts with a new approach. But to ensure you do all of this the right way, you need to know the recruitment trends that are being forecasted to turn talent acquisition on its head in 2025!.

Let’s dive in.

Trend #1—Recruitment through social media

Social media has been the north star for recruiters and hiring managers. It’s not restricted to building a personal brand and influencer marketing anymore; also finding quality and targeted candidates. With more and more people joining the social squad, social recruiting will continue to be one of the primary channels for recruiters to source candidates.

Clearly: recruiting via social media is an effective recruiting strategy. Recruiters are seeing the results and this will become more effective with social channels like LinkedIn.

If you are a recruiter leveraging LinkedIn, here’s how you can amplify your efforts:

• Connect with candidates by scanning their LinkedIn profiles and understanding their interests, skills, experience level and so on
• Send them an Inmail asking if they are open to opportunities and sharing the job profile you are hiring for

💡Pro tip: To reach out to super-targeted candidates, make a list of ideal candidates. Engage with their content first or connect with them on LinkedIn and introduce yourself and your company first.

Trend #2—Automation: or ATS- Automated nurturing for resumes

An ATS or applicant tracking system remains to be a savior in the recruitment industry and takes off the load of the hefty manual hiring process. Whether you want to create stronger job descriptions or automate tedious workflows—an ATS can do it all for you; however, recruiters will rely on the ATS only to an extent. They’ll leverage automation and manual efforts to get the best results. When hiring for super-targeted and niche job profiles, recruiters will still have to do a deep dive into their target candidate personas by reaching out to select candidates and scanning their profiles.

Recruiters will need to carry out several recruiting tasks manually if they are hiring for a laser-focused senior or niche role. On the flip side, an ATS works in favor when hiring for junior-level roles.

A simple workflow for carrying out your recruitment process via ATS looks like this:

Created a job posting for a junior-level role → candidate applies for the role → an ATS emailer is sent to the candidate asking for the online assessment → candidate takes the test → invited for the interview process (if the test gets approved).

When this recruitment workflow is conducted by recruiters manually for senior roles, each task remains the same but the workload of screening every profile for different roles lessens which makes the ATS a winner.

Trend #3—Reskilling and upskilling to enhance internal mobility

After the layoffs by big tech giants like Twitter and Meta, it is obvious employees can be laid off at any time, at any stage of employment. However, before laying off the employees, companies follow a layoff plan and a multi-step approach on who to select for the layoff. They look at tenure, certifications, performance reviews, and promotability. Based on these factors, they create a scale and measure the employees on this scale, and then lay them off.

External hires are 61% more likely to be laid off or fired in their first year of service and 21% more likely to leave.

And the common point for these layoffs is performance. If the employees are not learning and upskilling, there will always be a lag in their performance. That’s why you need to regulate programs for your employees to help them upskill and reskill themselves to stay ahead of such situations.

And how, you may ask, do you encourage them to upskill? Offer stipends for certifications or conduct in-house training—from educational programs to personal development programs—all of them help in the growth of the employee.

The key is to keep the employees in the learning loop—which will help you to fill open job roles internally and prepare them for any adverse situations ahead.

Also read: How HackerEarth Made it Through 2 Recessions Without Relying on Layoffs?

Trend #4—Employee well-being and engagement

Employee well-being and engagement have been the highlight for better workplace functioning ever since the pandemic. Candidates are now selective about the companies they want to work with. They even create a checklist of the kind of companies they want to work with. Here’s how a candidate’s basic filter checklist looks like:

• Do I believe in their company’s purpose?
• Will I work with people who inspire me?
• Am I going to learn something I don’t already know?

Candidates are as laser-focused on their choice of companies as are the recruiters on finding the right tech talent. They have switched from *just* focusing on paychecks to companies that:

• Offer career growth, and learning
• Respect their after-work boundaries
• Offer them the flexibility to choose their work options
• Value their emotional and mental health

Here’s the thing: offering employees an annual comp off to give themselves a break from the mental exhaustion of burnout won’t help. It needs to be ingrained in the company’s culture on how to create an employee-first ecosystem.

Trend #5—Employer branding

Employer branding will continue to stay to be a crucial factor in attracting candidates and filling up the roles at your organization with quality candidates. With a solid employer brand, you will be able to showcase your company values and aspirations and drive candidates who don’t want to stay with you for the annual package but for what you are building. However, building such an employer brand needs effort and you need to stay authentic.

To demonstrate your company values to the candidates and attract the best talent, do this:

• Get your employees to talk about the company on social media. For example, ask them to share about a fun activity the company did recently and how it impacted them
• Get ample PR coverage for the initiatives you have contributed to
• Showcase interviews with the leadership team—helps the candidates pick the brains of leaders by watching their videos

Also watch: Creating an Employer Brand That Sticks

Trend #6—Workforce diversification

Work diversification doesn’t just mean what, where, and how people work but also the type of work. Simply put, organizations don’t just rely just on a geographically distributed team but a distributed team with different employment types—full-time employees and freelancers.

With workforce diversification, companies are successful in doing two things: bringing employees from different backgrounds and having employees with specialized skills together.

A good way to amplify workforce diversification is by having a mix of full-time and independent employees, ideally, by following Pareto’s principle of 70:30.

Trend #7—Predictive analysis

Companies will use predictive analysis to audit the skills of existing employees, shortlist them for difficult-to-fill roles, provide them with learning opportunities based on their skills and help them build personalized career pathways for their employees.

Some questions that predictive analysis provides insights to you on include:

• What are your most effective candidate sourcing channels (job boards, social media, referrals, and so on).
• How long does the screening process take and which screening techniques are effective?
• How long does it take to go from the application to the offer letter phase?
• What positions are likely to be needed or become vacant in the future and what will the hiring manager’s needs be?
• How likely is it for a new hire to perform well?
• How long will a new hire stay with the company?
• At what stage do the roadblocks regularly occur, what is their impact and how to fix them?
• Which roles and skills are needed urgently to meet the company’s needs?

Trend #8—AI in Talent Acquisition

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is playing an increasingly significant role in modern Talent Acquisition strategies. This section explores the impact of AI on recruitment processes and its growing importance in staying competitive in the job market.

Leveraging AI for candidate sourcing

AI-powered tools can efficiently scan through a vast pool of resumes and job applications, swiftly identifying top talent. These tools analyze not only skills and qualifications but also consider factors like cultural fit, improving the accuracy of candidate sourcing.

Enhancing candidate assessment

AI enables objective and consistent candidate assessments. Through natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning algorithms, it evaluates resumes and even conducts initial interviews. This not only saves time but also helps reduce unconscious biases, ensuring fair evaluation.

AI in predictive hiring

AI-driven predictive analytics models can forecast a candidate’s potential success and tenure within an organization. This empowers recruiters to make informed decisions and optimize long-term hiring strategies.

Ethical considerations and transparency

While AI offers numerous advantages, it also raises ethical concerns. Transparency in AI decision-making processes and addressing algorithmic biases are crucial aspects of responsible AI adoption in Talent Acquisition.

Incorporating AI in Talent Acquisition is no longer an option but a necessity for businesses aiming to attract and retain the best talent efficiently and objectively.

Grab the spotlight in 2025 with these recruitment trends

So now you have been through all the 7 recruitment trends that you need to leverage in 2025. Some of these are the trends you have already been implementing while some will require you to analyze and reanalyze your ongoing strategy, see what the other organizations are doing, and take inspiration.

What are you waiting for? Ship your efforts the right way!

An employer brand plays a crucial role in the employee value proposition. It essentially refers to what the organization has successfully communicated as its identity to its current and potential employees. According to Workable, 9 out of 10 candidates would apply for a job when it’s from an employer brand that’s actively maintained.

Intrigued about employer branding? Then, this blog is for you!

Here are some of the important questions that are often asked about employer branding. We have provided some detailed insights in place to help you with a clear understanding of technical recruitment and employer branding for your tech business.

What is employer branding?

Employer branding refers to the process a firm undertakes to promote itself as an employer of choice. It consists of core principles, employee experience, and communication with prospective employees. That being stated, why is employer branding vital to your company? Following the epidemic, the necessity to develop a strong brand became more important than ever. The IT talent market is becoming increasingly competitive as more organizations are embracing remote working and rapid technological adoption.

As others compete to fill in-demand positions, good employer branding will be vital in determining your success. Many renowned businesses use employer branding as an employer branding marketing strategy. It helps a firm portray itself as a top choice for competent applicants. On the other hand, building your brand is a persistent, long-term process that provides consistent dividends in the long run. So, it’s quite evident that starting earlier will help your organization build a reputation as a great workplace.

What is the purpose of an employer brand?

It is easier said than done to establish a strong employer brand. Identifying and presenting your organization as a desirable location to work for the most skilled applicants takes time. However, if you succeed, you will be able to achieve the goals that you are presently battling. Employer branding is crucial in technical recruitment because:

Helps attract and retain excellent employees

A positive employer brand will make your current employees proud to work for you. Becoming a part of a company with a strong work culture is important for job seekers. Thus, businesses must be mindful of how they portray that environment. Most job seekers will look at your company’s social media accounts before applying, so use them to portray an employee-centric culture and to take advantage of social media platforms and job portals.

Lowers Recruitment Costs

If you have a strong employer brand, candidates will rush to apply for your job postings, allowing you to spend less money on tech recruitment marketing. Why pay for a job board posting when people are already pouring to your careers page? Working for a well-known, reputable firm is vital to many individuals, and if you present your company like this, you will draw more prospects for open roles.

Increases Employee Engagement

When your company adheres to an employee-centric corporate brand, you conduct frequent employee engagement activities. There’s no second thought about the fact that an engaged workforce increases productivity and revenue. On the other hand, a lower employee turnover provides a solid foundation for your organization to attract more qualified candidates for new positions.

Communicate the Value of Your Brand

It’s no secret that top players in the market always dominate when it comes to recruiting top talents. Skilled workers will always prefer companies with strong brand recognition and beliefs. Ensure that your brand value is adequately conveyed to hire the best of the best. Modern job seekers are interested not just in your company’s services but also in intangible resources such as your mission, goal, ethics, and work environment.

Also Read: Building An Employer Brand: Everything You Need To Know

Effects of ignoring employer branding

Inability to win the Talent Competition

Businesses are in a constant war for recruiting talents to acquire highly motivated, experienced, and qualified employees. You’re always at the risk of hiring below-average personnel if your thinking isn’t geared toward attracting the top applicants. Consequently, you lose the fight and end up recruiting employees that lack the necessary talents to propel your business forward.

Attracting Unsuitable Talent

It is related to the previously described danger. Of course, you lose the talent war, but what’s more harmful is that by attracting poorly culturally fit individuals, your company has little chance of surviving in this cut-throat competition. . However, competitors that have effectively applied employer branding and recruited the best and most culturally suitable job prospects will achieve success and successfully build their firms both locally and worldwide.

Employee value proposition

The most common barrier for applicants choosing a new job is a lack of vision about what their day-to-day life may look like at a new company. A clear employee value proposition can assist them in doing so; it informs them of the type of team they will be dealing with and what sorts of activities, career trajectory, work-life balance, and everyday chores they will encounter at the company. These details can assist in building the foundation of a solid employer brand that catches the audience’s attention, piques their interest, and encourages them into your technical recruitment pipeline.

As you move closer to selecting your perfect employee, your EVP becomes more than simply a tool for attracting prospects; it also serves as a clear means of distinguishing yourself from the competition. When applicants are deciding to take a position, a strongly outlined employee value proposition allows them to evaluate different possibilities or job offers on a point-by-point basis.

Job seekers evaluate potential employment opportunities based on the employee value proposition and prefer the one that effectively matches up with their professional goals, has higher advantages, offers more valuable work, delivers the most enticing resources to its employees, and more.

Also Read: IT Recruiting: Strategy and Tips for Success

Which channels can my company use to promote the employer brand?

It’s no wonder that IT talent can be acquired online, and all applicants are nowadays spending time on digital platforms. As a result, social media and digital programmatic advertising are excellent places to begin.
LinkedIn is now the best platform for employer branding, content marketing and recruitment marketing business, but if you’re seeking to market yourself as an employer who wants to attract a younger population, you can consider Instagram, Facebook, Twitter

However, don’t overlook the value of personalizing the tech recruitment process by encouraging recruiters to contact prospects directly or using customized advertisement methods such as LinkedIn emails, GitHub, and AngelList to display openings, workshops, and definitely your employer brand.

Furthermore, you can always go beyond the boundaries to reach out to educational institutions such as colleges. Building a strong rapport with them will provide you with a community of ready-to-graduate people who will be familiar with you as an employer.

How can I measure the success of employer branding?

Some of the employer branding in recruitment metrics that can help you measure the success of employer branding:

Industry Awareness and Perception

The top-level measures of employer branding are:

1. Brand awareness
2. Social media engagement rates
3. Brand sentiment
4. Brand characteristics/associations
5. Branded search impressions

Measuring Candidate Experience

The mid-level employer branding metrics are:

• Hire quality
• Cost per candidate
• Source of hire
• Offer acceptance rate
• Tech hiring manager satisfaction

Measuring Employee Experience

The bottom-level employer branding measures are:

• Employee satisfaction scores
• Employee referral rate
• Employee retention
• Employer site review

Also Read: 4 Steps to Build your Talent Acquisition Strategy

Is it important to have a dedicated employer branding manager?

Obviously, your organization would have an employer branding manager, but this may not be realistic for everyone. The majority of businesses do not have the resources. However, this doesn’t imply that they can’t work on the brand and numerous tasks can be completed without a dedicated individual.

To begin with, any employee can serve as a branding expert when they are supported and encouraged. There are very small firms with fantastic employer branding in tech recruitment because the individuals who work there adore the company’s culture. Begin with small measures, and you will see a significant improvement over time.

How can I promote employer branding with a growing remote-working culture?

• Ensure you provide the dynamics and specifics of your remote work policy in every job posting and job description. Incorporating your remote work policy into each job advertising indicates you support remote employee tech hiring consultants.
• Posting job offers on job sites that resonate with remote employees is an excellent way to represent your organization as one that welcomes them. It indicates your experience with remote work, the perks of working remotely, and your understanding of the prerequisites for a successful remote business.
• Again, social media will indeed be your greatest friend, but you’ll need to be innovative outside the workplace. Instead of advertising your company’s physical presence, such as eccentric office spaces and the entire crew, you must develop ways to capture the emotional qualities of your employer brand. Share staff testimonials and creative content, and take advantage of video technology advancements by posting screenshots of meetings and get-togethers.
• One way to promote employer branding with a growing remote-working culture is to look at what past and current workers share on social media. Encourage employees to talk about their remote work experiences on their profiles so that people get a better idea of what it’s like to work in a remote environment.
• Virtual workplace excursions and executive interviews can also be conducted as part of your virtual orientation program. Just because we’re working remotely today doesn’t imply we’ll be doing so eternally, and new employees need to know what they can expect from the company when they join.