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A good recruiting plan grows as the company grows. It’s adaptable enough to meet the challenges ahead, but also focused and responsive enough to get results.

How can you build a scalable recruiting strategy? Keep these tips in mind:

Make your applicant tracking system work for you.

An Applicant Tracking System (ATS) can help you handle a large number of applications – but it’s only as good as the effort you put into fine-tuning it to your needs. Your recruiter can help you determine the ideal keywords to scan for, keep track of applications in the system, and “mine” past applications in order to reach out to new talent.

Put your effort where the efficiencies are.

When hiring needs begin to grow, many inexperienced companies make one of two mistakes. Either they attempt to keep all their hiring in-house, or they outsource indiscriminately to the first recruiter to appear, offloading the entire process at once.

In fact, neither system works. Keeping hiring entirely in-house drains resources, time, and attention from staff members who have more pressing problems on their plates; outsourcing it entirely leaves it in the hands of a company that may not know the details of your business or your specific needs.

Instead, work efficiently. Find a staffing partner who works one-on-one with you and your team to identify needs, describe your company culture, and build an employment brand that attracts better candidates, not simply more candidates. Put in the effort to build this relationship, then let hiring managers focus on their day-to-day tasks as your staffing partner goes to work finding the right people.

ABE: Always Be Evaluating.

As every kindergarten teacher knows, all the effort in the world means little unless you have a way to evaluate the results and improve them in the future. A good scalable recruiting strategy contains both methods for tracking its success and ways to address shortcomings. By working with a staffing firm, you gain access to experienced staffing partners who offer tracking and feedback methods – and who are receptive to feedback that comes from your own hiring process.

At SMR Group Ltd, our recruiters specialize in connecting biotech, pharmaceutical and medical device companies with the best talent available – at any scale. Contact us today to learn more about our specialized recruiting services.


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