Finding and Recruiting the Right Candidates

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Finding And Recruiting The Right Candidates One of the factors that influence global economies in a significant manner is ability of business organizations to find and recruit the most appropriate candidates to perform specific jobs. The participants in the survey expressed their opinion on this issue keeping the following aspects in mind.

• Trends In Recruitment • Brand Name Of Employer

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Finding And Recruiting The Right Candidates • Trends In Recruitment

A large section of the top management professionals agreed with the fact that over the years, the process of finding top quality candidates and recruiting them has become extremely difficult. The dearth of high-value candidates possessing the right skill set to fulfill their responsibilities in a smooth and efficient manner was cited as major reason for the same.

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Finding And Recruiting The Right Candidates • This in turn has led to the empowerment of candidates who have specific demands and expect to enjoy a particular lifestyle if they agree to take up the role being offered to them. In view of this fact, it was not surprising that 44% participants felt that quality candidates were not only hard to find but even harder to recruit while only 5% described the process to be an easy one.

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Finding And Recruiting The Right Candidates • Brand Name Of Employer

In an era when the power of brand name has come to be recognized across the globe, it is not surprising that employers seek to project a specific image. The idea is to focus on recruiting candidates, who possess the requisite skills to fulfill the work expectations of the company. This not only helps in enhancing the goodwill of the organization but also projecting the right set of values amongst the target audiences.

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Finding And Recruiting The Right Candidates • According to the survey report, 59% of the participants felt that the “Employer Brand” had a strong and significant influence on the candidates. While 38% of the participants felt that it did not have any discernable influence on the candidates only 2% thought that it affected the candidates in a negative manner.

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Finding And Recruiting The Right Candidates Type Of Governance Being Offered Over the past several years, there has been a significant change in the governing bodies of their specific organizations. Today, there is a greater diversity in the boards of most business organizations, in terms of the number of women and people from minority community getting a place in the top management ranks. According to the survey participants the type of governance being offered is accessed on the basis of the following aspects.

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Finding And Recruiting The Right Candidates • Management Diversity:

Most participants agreed with the fact that business organizations seemed to be more flexible with introducing diversity at the top management levels. According to the survey reports modern business organizations have 80% women and 51% minorities working at C-level, while these numbers go up to 83% and 43% respectively for manager and director positions.

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Finding And Recruiting The Right Candidates • Diversity In Boards::

When it comes to having a greater diversity at board levels, most companies tend to be somewhat conservative. This is evident from the fact that 32% of the participants accepted to having an independent chairman, which is surprisingly 6% less than the previous year. Moreover, 69% participants said that they had independent directors which are again 1% less than last year’s results.

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Finding And Recruiting The Right Candidates • :: When it came to the question of having women directors and ethnic minority directors the 50% and 20% respectively answered in an affirmative. However these answers were also 5% and 3% less respectively than the results from last year.

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