Brian WalchOwner at Shiftfocus Coaching and Consulting

Key Recruitment Skills for Leadership

Name: Key Recruitment Skills for Leadership
Uploaded: 2024-11-04T14:30:30+00:00
Duration: 1 min 2 s
Channel: Brian Walch
Description: In this segment, Brian Walch explains that as managers advance, recruiting becomes a core responsibility. He outlines two essential practices: first…

4 Nov 2024 · 1 min

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In this segment, Brian Walch explains that as managers advance, recruiting becomes a core responsibility. He outlines two essential practices: first, cultivating a recruiter mentality—continuously scouting and maintaining a pool of potential candidates so openings can be filled quickly. Second, clearly separating must‑have skills from those that can be taught, which expands the talent pool and facilitates smoother onboarding. By adopting these approaches, managers can increase the variety of viable candidates and improve hiring outcomes.

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One of the things that managers will start having to do as they progress and move up in their responsibility is recruiting new members to their team. There's two things that a manager needs to do to be effective at recruiting. The first is to have a recruiter mentality so that they're always thinking about who might be a good fit, so that when a position comes open, they have a candidate pool already. Number two is they need to be able to articulate what skills are really required versus what skills can they train when somebody comes in. Too often managers are looking at what skills are needed now to do the job and not what are they willing to train so that the person is able to do the job. If you can articulate that, then you will increase the candidate pool because you will have a wider variety of candidates you can pull from and bring them into a successful onboarding engagement.