The strong relation between – recruitment and skill training need!

There was a time when the skills required were the simplest to assess and the time was less competitive and hence, number of frauds was also less. Today, as the complexity of skills has increased, so has increased the number of candidates who claim to have those complex skills without any prior knowledge and the excessive competitiveness has created a need for skill training for the recruitment team as well.

Along with the rapidly-changing technology, the requirements to be looked in a candidate are also changing with every passing day. All these changes and frauds, have left the recruitment consultants in a state of mayhem. Recruitment consultants learn about one technology with great efforts but before they are settled with it, there is a technology shift. Candidates with some new skill need to be looked out for.

Training the existing employees or looking out for new candidates is the issue which everyone bothers about. But have you thought about updating the knowledge base of your recruitment consultants?

Let me elaborate my point:

Recruitment consultants do the following:

• Shortlists the candidates: They scan through the resume to look for the candidates with the desired skill set.
• Conducts Initial Interview: After analysing the resume, they speak to the candidate regarding their experience in the desired field and try to understand if the candidate has a real experience in the field or the written skill set is just for enhancing the look of the resume.

If the recruitment consultant has a good understanding of the skill set required, the first step will be correct. Like it is said, a good start is half the battle won. Training the recruitment consultant with the basic skills will increase the quality of the recruitment. Not only will the right candidates will be shortlisted, the time taken to hire a candidate will decrease massively. Won’t it make an organization a better place to be? What do you say?