Win your success in mass recruitment

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An urgent search for a large volume of human resource in the same position to expand business… Whatever the purpose is, the race against time in Mass Recruitment is always a challenge for employers and HR specialists.

Mass recruitment often takes place in specific industries such as IT-Software, Manufacturing, and Sales. In addition to time pressure, the variety of job requirements and quality insurance of hundreds of candidates also create many difficulties to recruiters.

Similar to all kinds of recruitment, Mass Recruitment need to undergo basic steps such as identifying competencies requirements for the position, writing job descriptions, searching and approaching candidates from different sources…However, to be successful in this most complex type of recruitment, you have to pay a lot more attention to the following factors:  

Take advantage of different recruitment channels
Because you have to reach a large number of candidates, Mass Recruitment often requires you to handle different recruitment channels rather than through one or two channels.  Based on the requirements for each position, you can choose to use various channels at the same time, such as:

- Job Advertisement (Print and Online): These channels can reach large amount of candidates, while helping enhance the brand image of employers. The online channels such as VietnamWorks are leading in efficiency by attracting tens of thousands of candidates everyday.   

- Universities and Vocational Centers: There are hundreds of thousands of students graduate from these places every year. This is a remarkable human resource for Mass Recruitment at entry-level positions that do not require a lot of work experience.

- Job fairs: The best advantage of a job fair is that in a short time, employers can meet a large number of candidates in person. You can also receive the CV and interviews the candidates on the spot.

- HR partners: If internal personnel and time is not guaranteed, you should search for a professional recruitment service. This recruitment service provider can access many candidate sources and database that regular employers don’t have. They also use their advanced recruitment and interview skills to improve the quality of candidates for the employers.
 
Beside, you can use available information in your company’s data that collected from the recruitment history or consider the recommendation of current staffs of the company.

Get the right people to find the right people
Employers need a good personnel preparation, which is building a dedicated team from inside the company to take charge of the entire recruitment project. You need to clearly define the role of each member in this team: Who will look for candidate? Who will be in charge of skills interview? Who will interview about personality or culture-fit? And who will be the one to make the final decisions?  This step helps your company make the most out of the recruitment capability and and strength of the management team, ensuring the quality of candidates and complete the Mass Recruitment project with the best possible results.

Build an effective recruitment process
A strict recruitment process helps save a lot of time and attracts the right candidates that fit the vacancies. Specifically, when using a large amount of human resource and material resource for Mass Recruitment, you need to come up with a strict process to avoid mistakes and losses.

Basically, the recruitment process goes through 7 steps: Define who you want to hire, Write attractive job description, Screen CV to find potential candidate, Filter unqualified candidates by phone screening, Face-to-face Interview, Check reference and Make the Offer.

In addition to basic steps above, you can use recruitment tests to quickly eliminate unsuitable candidates before the face-to-face interview round. Therefore, in many organizations, the recruitment process can be up to tens different steps.  Each company and each recruitment project is different, so ask yourself and the hiring manager: How many steps? What is the goal of each step? Who is the person in charge of each step? It is important to reach an agreement on the process with all parties involved to have it executed successfully.