Category Archives: For Recruiters

Maintaining Your Most Valuable Treasure

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Many employers commit the mistake of considering their employee’s value according to the salary they have to give to them. But this is the point where they have calculated and analyzed the worth of their employees in a completely wrong way. As a matter of fact employees are the most valuable and critical treasure for a company. A company despite spending lot of money on recruiting, training and retaining their employees, has to face the problem of maintaining this human asset of theirs. What is the reason that some companies are successful in maintaining this wealth of theirs while others are continuously losing out on it?

The answer to the question is very simple. They put a very sensible and aesthetic effort to make the workplace such that no one ever wants to leave it. Meeting everyone’s expectations and demands is definitely a huge challenge which a company faces, but definitely manageable. Here are a few easy steps to achieve this goal of retaining you most valuable treasure:

1. Make the job challenging

Until and unless an employee feels challenged to use his skills and knowledge to the best possible level he will never feel and associate himself as an integral part of the company. Therefore, when you hire an employee you should keep in mind your requirements and should make an effort to keep the employee involved.

2. Training Sessions

Providing training opportunities to your employees is an advantage situation for them as well as you. While it gives the employee’s resume an edge over others, it helps you to pool in resources for the challenges that the company will face in the future.

3. Identify Top Talent

Recognizing and appraising the efforts your employees put in their work will do great wonders in motivating them to work for the company.

4. Workplace Condition

Basic things like providing hygienic working conditions and facilities such as cafeteria and recreation for the employees will act as huge boosts in the level of employee performance and cannot you afford to neglect them.

5. Transparency in Decision-making

Involvement of employees in decision- making is a very crucial factor that needs to be considered by each and every organization. Any decision made in the company that affects the employees should follow the three basics of our constitution, i.e. – “Of the People, By the People and For the People”. This will help the management to understand and react to a situation in a more fruitful manner and will also establish a satisfaction among the employees.

6. Incentives

Financial gain for the employees will always help you enhance employee satisfaction. Performance based incentives will encourage the employees to work harder and strive for excellence.

7. Evaluation Process

It is very essential that you make your evaluation process and system fair and transparent so that your decision of appraisals can be seen as appropriate not only by others but also by the employee receiving them.

8. Quarterly Feedback

Always remember that feedback is a two way process. You should look forward to receive it also when you want to give a feedback to your employees. Take feedback from employees in a regular and timely manner so that it can help you to take better decisions strengthen the relationship between the company and its employees.

9. Growth Ladder

Employees should be able to see the path for their career growth in a clear manner so that they can see their expectations being met and feel motivated to achieve the targets being set for them.

10. Discussion Forums

You should always respect your employees’ ideas and provide them ample opportunities to discuss and speak out their ideas and thoughts. The people involved in a project will be able to showcase the ground realities in a much more realistic manner and will be able to give more practical solutions to deal with the roadblocks they are facing.

The challenge of retaining the employees will be faced every year by an organization. But the real challenge is not in addressing the problem but in solving it which will make the difference. As Henry Ford has said “Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.”

Special Features for Employers

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With the stark change in the way recruitment has been taking place in the last few years, employers are looking for new gateways to reach candidates in the most efficient and economical way. The world has changed into something where it is nearly impossible to get anything without shelling out a considerable amount of money, with absolutely no guarantee of equal returns. With no other way out, employers gamble with their luck, hoping to find at least a few good candidates for the time and money they have spent to find them.

This has been a growing concern among the recruiters since several years, which is why we feel it’s about time we put an end to this predicament. And that is one of the reasons we built Azzist, keeping in mind the monetary wastage and also time, that almost always lead to a result of measly quality.

Keeping these concerns in mind, we have built our features that ensure delivery of quality result before demanding service fee. Let me provide a brief explanation of a few of our current features.

Free job posting: As mentioned earlier, we care about making your recruitment process as economical as possible. To make this possible, we allow you to post both basic and premium jobs for free.

Free database search: Apart from posting jobs for free, we also allow employers to access and use our database for free, although you need to purchase the profiles of shortlisted candidates to contact them.

Premium Profiles: Premium Profiles are what we call elite profiles that stand apart from the general profiles for one or more reason. Premium Profiles are segregated from the general profiles based on certain criteria that we expect them to fulfill, which includes, falling in one or more categories that has been created to identify Premium Profiles. Premium Profiles usually include top management profiles like CEO, President etc., rare or risky jobs like working in active volcanic areas or profiles with high qualification or experience, like a research scientist with a Ph. D or a domain expert.

You can learn more about premium profiles here.

Premium Jobs: Premium jobs, similar to premium profiles, are jobs that are posted for elite job postings similar to the examples mentioned earlier.  These jobs are free to post and receive complete personal support from our Recruitment Team right from posting a job to finding the right candidate for your post. We also provide options to let our Recruitment Team post jobs for you and also look for candidates.

Vault: We provide you with your very own vault where you can save all your important documents. Since we care about your privacy, your documents will be hidden as long as it is in your vault. You will also be provided with a Reminder option where you can set a reminder about the document and you will be automatically notified about it on the day that you want to be reminded.

Public Page: Public Pages are your very own introduction page where you can showcase anything about your company, which will eventually lead to greater visibility and faster recruitment. You could also use this space to explain your recruitment policies to candidates, which will help prevent future miscommunications and confusions. You are also provided with options to post YouTube video and SlideShare presentation about your company, in case you wish the candidates to know about your company well before applying.

Share jobs (New): Now you can easily share your jobs through the Share option we provide with the jobs that are posted through which you can easily share the jobs across social networks, email, blogs and more! You can also easily bookmark the job in case you want to get back to it later.

We’re coming up with a lot more features, including Rehire, in future. So follow our blog and stay updated about all our exciting additions in future.

For any query, you can always ask through comments or on our profiles on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Alternatively, you can also email us at support@azzist.com and we will get back at you as soon as possible.