All-4-HR Blog Spot: 5 Ways to Align Recruiting Strategies With Business Strategies!

Attracting talent and retaining top talent is the key force behind achieving organizational growth. While companies treat recruiting the best talent as a necessary evil, keep in mind aligning your recruiting strategies with business strategies is the success to executing viable recruiting strategies and driving the right people to your organization. Aligning recruiting strategies with business strategies, requires asking such questions as:

Does your executive team understand how important talent management is in the organization?
Are high performing employees sticking around?
Are you your employees excited to come to work?
How is your company viewed by outsiders?

These critical questions when answered will show what direction your organization should be going to recruit and maintain top talent.

5 ways to align your Recruiting Strategies with your Business Strategies are:

Find out what HR practices have the greatest influence in your organization. For example do you have an excellent on-boarding system; or an excellent referral program that is yielding great results?
Identify what cultural, technical or behavioral capabilities do you have in place to maintain a competitive advantage in your industry? What mindset and behaviors does your company need? For example, how is employee morale? Do you want to increase employee productivity? Do you need to conduct training of a new software that will improve employee efficiency?
Identify what HR initiatives need to be created. What HR initiatives will need your attention within the next 12 to 18 months? For example has the industry hiring trend changed, i.e., increased or decreased?
Identify a plan to implement HR changes. Does not have to be extravagant or difficult, but a plan however, that is achievable – in increments if that seems more doable. What person or team is going to work with you to implement these HR actions?
Measure the results of your HR plan. Gauge what changes need to be made and more importantly follow through.

Aligning recruiting strategies with your business strategies, may sound difficult. You may think it is too much of a problem. Believe me! No matter what the size of your organization these strategies will yield long term positive results.