Support your hiring strategy with top tips from global recruitment experts
With half (52%) of businesses planning to hire from overseas in the next year, find out how to steer your global recruitment strategy to success with the expert tips shared in our Q2 Hiring Trends Coffee Briefing.
With labour shortages remaining one of the top challenges for businesses, over half (52%) of employers plan to hire staff from overseas in the next year, in a bid to navigate tightening recruitment costs and fill the empty seats across their workforce.
But with 1 in 10 businesses struggling to implement overseas hiring, how can employers looking to recruit from abroad set themselves up for success?
This question was at the core of Totaljobs’ Q2 Hiring Trends Coffee Briefing Webinar, held on Wednesday 17th August.
During the session, Jon Banks (Head of Global Hiring Solutions) presented findings from our Q2 Hiring Trends Index and discussed a variety of topics with experts, including:
- How to hire confidently abroad
- The advantages of flexible and remote working for your workforce
- How employee engagement and development can enrich your global employer brand
The experts panellists, Becky Farmer (Global Employer Brand Manager at Vodafone) and Esther Chelladurai (Product Portfolio Director at Stepstone), joined Jon in the second half of the webinar to share practical tips for employers to implement into their global hiring strategy.
Watch the webinar on-demand here, or if you’re strapped for time, take a look at the key takeaways from Becky and Esther below.
Top tips from global recruitment experts
Spread your job ads across a wide mix of channels
“Similar to your retirement strategy, you don’t want to put all your egg in one basket. Work with a mix of vendors and evaluate the return on investment from each vendor. Each vendor is going to provide a different value to your business depending on what you’re hiring for. So understanding on what that value for your business is, is going to be key to filling your hires fast.”
Esther ChelladuraiProduct Portfolio Director at Stepstone
Evaluate candidates based on their growth-potential
“Reducing the barrier to entry involves being realistic about the requirements of a candidate for a given job. Instead of being rigid about what a candidate needs to have, evaluate whether they are able and are willing to grow into the role they’re applying for.”
Esther ChelladuraiProduct Portfolio Director at Stepstone
Strengthen your employer brand by communicating your organisation’s purpose
“Job advertising needs to be complemented with employer branding to be truly effective. If you’re not in the Fortune 500, you need to do the work, raise your brand awareness, and make a compelling case for a jobseeker to consider your company as a place of work.”
Esther ChelladuraiProduct Portfolio Director at Stepstone
Make your employer branding globally accessible
“We have a global EVP (employee value proposition) framework that all our markets work hard to make sure is consistent, and that’s important for us with a global brand as Vodafone. However, with that kind of market power, it’s really important to be able to bring that to life and ensure your EVP resonates with the target talent in that audience. You need global consistency but you also need that market layer. We really empower our markets to adopt and adapt to the framework.”
Becky FarmerGlobal Employer Brand Manager at Vodafone
Reinforce your recruitment messaging across all touchpoints
“We work closely with our brand and consumer teams, and we’re hoping to partner up with them to weave in more employer brand and recruitment messages, so people don’t just think of Vodafone as a product or service organisation.”
Becky FarmerGlobal Employer Brand Manager at Vodafone
Set clear goals to empower your team’s productivity
“Do you have the right measurements in place to understand if your business is doing well? If you have the right KPI’s, the right pulses on the business to realise that things are moving in the right direction, this empowers your team to have the autonomy to work from home or come into the office and work towards those goals.”
Esther ChelladuraiProduct Portfolio Director at Stepstone
“There’s no one-size-fits-all; understanding how people work best is really important in order to have a successful and motivated team.
Becky FarmerGlobal Employer Brand Manager at Vodafone
Retain talent with a clear learning & development strategy
“There’s always going to be a gap between the employees already within your organisation and who you’re looking to hire. Investing in learning and development and being mindful about the onboarding you’re providing to employees is really the best investment you can make.”
Esther ChelladuraiProduct Portfolio Director at Stepstone
Learn more about global workforce trends
Read the latest Hiring Trends Index, or watch the webinar and download the slides, to learn more about the trends, opportunities, and challenges shaping recruitment.
Follow us on LinkedIn for updates on our next Hiring Trends Index and Coffee Briefing webinar.
Watch our coffee briefing from August 2022 to unpack the latest recruitment trends. Plus, get expert recommendations to support your global hiring strategy and “work from anywhere” policies.
Streamline your global hiring
If you’re part of the 52% of employers who are planning to hire from overseas in the next year, then Totaljobs’ Global Hiring is here to support. Our recruitment solution is built to keep international recruitment simple – whether you’re a UK based employer looking to attract candidates from overseas to relocate, or you want to hire workers across the world.
Watch our coffee briefing from August 2022 to unpack the latest recruitment trends. Plus, get expert recommendations to support your global hiring strategy and “work from anywhere” policies.