Attract Your Ideal Employees.
Hiring new team members is time consuming and expensive. Hiring the wrong team member means all that time and money is wasted. Use 3 simple steps to write better job posts and attract ideal candidates for any job.
Thinking anybody is better than an open position costs businesses thousands of dollars every time they hire someone who isn’t the right fit.
How much time is spent digging through applications, interviewing, and training only to have the new hire leave in a few weeks? Increase qualified applications to open positions when your job post resonates with the right people.
Ones who want that job, not a job.
3 simple steps to write better job posts.
Step 1. Start With a Mission
Start job posts with a strong mission statement. Using a powerful and clear mission statement in your hiring ad will attract people who want to join that mission. What is the BIG company goal? When does it need to be accomplished? Why is it important? Put the answers together for a mission statement to motivate and inspire potential employees.
Starting with a powerful and clear mission statement in your job post attracts people who want to join that mission.
Step 2. Describe a Successful Employee
Add strength to job posts by listing key characteristics for the open position. What are 3 predictors of success in this job? What core traits do team members need to thrive in this role?
By describing what success looks like potential applicants know what’s expected. Potential team members start to get a good feel for the direction of the company and what it takes to succeed.
Add key characteristics in step 2 of your job posts continues to attract ideal employees. They want to help accomplish your mission and they feel like they fit with the team culture.
Step 3. Define Important Tasks
Be clear about the tasks that must be completed each day. By defining what the new employee will be doing it continues to attract the ideal potential employees (and repelling the wrong fit). They self identify as being capable of executing the tasks or willing to learn.
Adding critical tasks attracts the ideal employee to the specific job. They identify with the mission and want to help achieve it. Company culture feels like a good fit. The critical tasks are skills they have or are willing and excited to learn.
BONUS: How Should They Apply?
Give 1 way to submit applications. Now that your ideal candidate is excited to help accomplish your mission, contribute to your amazing company culture and has the talents to amaze your customers, don’t lose them because they don’t know the best way to connect. Having one way to submit eliminates confusion. Make it simple for candidates to apply.
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