Recruiting top talents can be troubling for hiring managers, rigorous for talent sources, and, if ineptly managed, overwhelming for recruiters. That’s why you will find some of the best recruitment agencies in India caught up in different web trying to simplify the end-to-end recruitment process.
E2E recruitment involves the whole process of finding the right candidate for an organization from start to finish. It’s a five-stage recruitment strategy that in-house teams and recruitment agencies use to identify, attract, and hire the best and most suitable candidates.
The E2E recruitment process has been about an end-to-end recruitment approach that leads to the successful onboarding of selected candidates. While this remains unchanged, new recruitment trends such as remote hiring and hybrid-first workplaces call for a subtle rethink of the core ideas behind the five-stage process.
The E2E Five-Stage Recruitment Process
First Stage: Preparation and planning.
They say a journey of a thousand miles always begins with a step, but the first step only counts when you make it past the finish line. Planning and preparation is the first stage of the E2E recruitment process—and in some ways, the last; it involves all aspects of the E2E recruitment process.
Unfortunately, some of the best recruitment agencies in India go about the preparation and planning stage in an employer-centric pattern with no regard for potential employees.
For these agencies, as soon as the need to find top talents arises, recruiters immerse themselves in defining the ideal candidate, estimating client budgets, drafting recruitment metrics, and doing everything possible to satisfy the employer – forgetting that the potential employee also has needs.
Being employer-centric is not the best option when recruiting top talent speedily. That’s to say, you can’t afford to be employer-centric at the expense of potential employees – you require a balanced equation.
Since the preparation and planning phase covers everything, from the opening advertisement and interview to negotiation, offer, onboarding, and billing, you can avoid a disappointing E2E recruitment process by drafting a planning and preparation strategy that is balanced to simplify and proposes a symmetrical roadmap.
Second Stage: Sourcing candidates
Since you invested duly in the planning and preparation phase – setting the correct data in your CRM, profiling ideal candidates, creating descriptive job ads, and drafting a sustainable strategy – sourcing candidates, shouldn’t be a problem.
Sourcing candidates involves putting out descriptive job ads across multiple job boards and social platforms, believing ideal individuals will apply. This is the phase where talent sources establish apparent must-haves and nice-to-haves.
The success of this phase depends on how well recruitment coordinators position their ads to develop the human appeal needed to get top talent to apply for the job.
For a smooth and seamless sourcing process, metrics must be accurate, and every hand must be on deck. Recruiters, interviewers, hiring managers, and recruitment coordinators need to genuinely collaborate with the talent sources. And, when applicable, reach out to their network for referrals.
Bear in mind that your job ad’s descriptive and accurate nature determines efficiency at this stage.
So apart from the intuitive and descriptive job ads used in sourcing candidates from local talent pools, we recommend you buck up the sourcing process by investing in smart job posting strategies such as social media hashtags and appealing job descriptions.
