News On Calendar
M | T | W | T | F | S | S |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 |
18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |
25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 |
Find News
Calendar
M | T | W | T | F | S | S |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 |
18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |
25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 |
Categories

Get proactive about finding your dream candidate As the race for top talent heats up, more and more talent pros, HR teams, and business leaders are discovering that traditional recruiting practices just aren’t cutting it anymore. Enter candidate personas. Candidate personas are research-based profiles that help you understand and find exactly who you’re looking to hire for a specific role. They’re proactive recruiting at its best, and are similar to buyer personas, which have been used by marketing teams for decades. But instead of zeroing in on a company’s ideal customer, like buyer personas, candidate personas help you find the perfect hire, whether you’re hiring one person, or hiring multiples of the same role.
The benefits of candidate personas When asked to describe an ideal candidate, a common answer for many talent professionals is “I’ll know them when I see them.” But to find top candidates in a talent-driven economy, you need an understanding of what those candidates are looking for, and that understanding comes from creating personas. By doing so, you’ll know how to reach them and what message will resonate with them, while also improving the following processes: Reducing hiring costs , Reducing time to hire, Increasing employee retention, Strengthening your employer brand
Step 1: Get aligned with your team Talk to your team and reach a consensus about what skills, technical knowledge, and cultural values are needed for the role, and have them identify several top performers in a similar position. Step 2: Interview your top performers Conduct informational interviews with the employees your team identified to find out more about what sets top performers apart from the pack. Step 3: Roll up your sleeves Go through all of your data and interview learnings and begin crafting your personas. Remember to make them as detailed and realistic as possible. Step 4: Share the final persona Once your personas are complete, circle back with your team to make sure they sign off on the final product.
Make continuous improvements Check in with new hires after 30 and 90 days to make sure you’re hiring the right types of employees. Adjust your personas if necessary.
Get aligned with your team. Without alignment from your hiring team, even the most detailed personas will never provide much value. That’s why a good first step in creating powerful personas is to loop in key stakeholders and find out what their ideal candidate would look like. This is where structuring your request is key. Start by setting up a meeting with your team members or sending them an email asking for their input. Additionally, ask them to identify top performers who are currently in the same role you’re hiring for
STEP 2 interview your top performers No one knows more about the role you’re hiring for than the people who are already doing it. So once your team has identified top performers in the same role you’re hiring for, it’s time to interview those employees and get their unique perspective. Before you get started, look at the list of top performers your team provided and dig into their recent performance reviews to get a better idea of why they were identified. From there, schedule one-on-ones to ask what makes them so successful. Remember, the goal of these interviews is to find out what motivates these people, what keeps them up at night, and why they applied to your company in the first place. This information will play an integral role as you craft your personas.
STEP 3 The next step is to craft your actual candidate persona. Here’s where you want to really dig into your interview data to see what trends emerge. How did top performers find your company? Were they employee referrals? Did they come from a major city? These are the key findings that need to find their way into your finished persona. Pull out the trends and let those serve as the basis for your finished product. As you document your personas, don’t be afraid to get creative. Adding a fictitious name can help keep that specific persona top of mind with the rest of your team, and also help make it seem more realistic and threedimensional.
STEP 4 Share the final persona Now that you’ve crafted your persona, it’s time to share the results with the team you originally consulted when you kicked off the process. Don’t be alarmed if some of those stakeholders initially push back when they see your finished persona. If they do, remind them that your candidate persona is backed by real-life data. As you build more candidate personas for the different roles you hire for, you’ll establish a library of personas to choose from. This will help streamline your process and inform each aspect of how you recruit – from the wording of your job descriptions to interview questions.
Related Blogs
-
Jun 14, 2019
Finding a job in…
Norway has one of the world's most astounding ways of life and an exhaustive government managed savings framework supported by moderately elevated amounts of tax..
-
Jun 10, 2019
Germany and Job Market
The job market Germany has the fourth biggest economy on the planet (after the US, China and Japan) and the biggest economy of any European..
-
Jun 6, 2019
Finding A Job In…
France is one of the world's most mainstream traveler goals, with landscape going from the Alps to the shorelines of the French Riviera and an..
-
Jun 5, 2019
Working in Europe
The (current) absence of visa confinements, comparable societies and expectations for everyday comforts make Europe an easy decision for alumni looking for present moment TEFL..
-
Jun 4, 2019
WORKING ABROAD
Stage 1: CHOOSE A LOCATION The world is a major spot, and everything light contacts is in your kingdom for potential employments abroad. Yowser! That..
-
May 31, 2019
What Your Hiring Style…
How to influence their perception of you and your company What Your Hiring Style Is Telling Candidates How to influence their perception of you and..
-
May 21, 2019
Dove lavorare all’estero 2019:…
Come trovare lavoro all'estero? Quali sono I migliori paesi dove andare nel 2019 for each iniziare a vivere una nuova avventura lavorativa e professionale? L'anno..
-
May 17, 2019
7 Best Ways to…
How does "working abroad" work? Things being what they are, you need to travel and live abroad however your financial balance is thoroughly murdering your..
-
May 15, 2019
Salary Negotiation Tips
What Are Salary Negotiations? Pay arrangements include talking about an occupation offer with an imminent manager to arrange a compensation and advantages bundle that is..
-
May 11, 2019
Moving to Europe
Contemplating making a move to Europe? For some expats, living in Europe is a long lasting dream. Be that as it may, in the event..
-
May 11, 2019
How to Recruit the…
Gen Z begins in 1995, making them in any event 23 years of age and beginning their career. With the soonest Gen Z births happening..
-
May 10, 2019
The Benefits of Travelling
Everybody continues saying that it is so imperative to travel. So what's this whine about? The advantages of voyaging are not only a one-time thing:..
-
May 8, 2019
Tips For A Job…
There are some job opportunities that seem to be perfect for us. If you want to apply to or for for a job and be..
-
May 7, 2019
Living In Europe
Living In Europe Living conditions Synopsis of living conditions in Europe Personal satisfaction – over the EU social strategy plan Great living conditions rely upon..
-
May 1, 2019
New Job Insights That…
If growing in your career is on the top of your to-do list this year, you may be thinking about landing a new job. While..
-
Mar 31, 2019
Blog Post Title
What goes into a blog post? Helpful, industry-specific content that: 1) gives readers a useful takeaway, and 2) shows you're an industry expert. Use your..
-
Nov 23, 2015
Experience Writing For Producing…
Ravenously while stridently coughed far promiscuously below jeez much yikes bland that salamander cunningly some over abhorrent as house with between ouch that well scurrilously..
-
Nov 23, 2015
New York is Leading…
Ravenously while stridently coughed far promiscuously below jeez much yikes bland that salamander cunningly some over abhorrent as house with between ouch that well scurrilously..
-
Nov 23, 2015
An Overworked Newspaper Editor
Ravenously while stridently coughed far promiscuously below jeez much yikes bland that salamander cunningly some over abhorrent as house with between ouch that well scurrilously..
-
Nov 23, 2015
The Number of Local…
Ravenously while stridently coughed far promiscuously below jeez much yikes bland that salamander cunningly some over abhorrent as house with between ouch that well scurrilously..
-
Nov 23, 2014
Physical injured 10 days…
Ravenously while stridently coughed far promiscuously below jeez much yikes bland that salamander cunningly some over abhorrent as house with between ouch that well scurrilously..
-
Nov 23, 2013
News Producer Jobs, Employment…
Ravenously while stridently coughed far promiscuously below jeez much yikes bland that salamander cunningly some over abhorrent as house with between ouch that well scurrilously..
-
Nov 23, 2012
Employment Opportunities at Jobsline
Ravenously while stridently coughed far promiscuously below jeez much yikes bland that salamander cunningly some over abhorrent as house with between ouch that well scurrilously..
-
Nov 23, 2011
Looking for a Highly…
Ravenously while stridently coughed far promiscuously below jeez much yikes bland that salamander cunningly some over abhorrent as house with between ouch that well scurrilously..
-
Nov 23, 2010
Candidates for This Position…
Ravenously while stridently coughed far promiscuously below jeez much yikes bland that salamander cunningly some over abhorrent as house with between ouch that well scurrilously..
Please review first and proceed to the site.