Tips to Get the Signature You Want
You thought you wrote the perfect job description to attract top talent for your nurse practitioner job. You designed your recruitment process to identify the best candidates, and you found the perfect and most promising fit for the role. But when you came to offering them a contract, they turned it down. They’ve gone elsewhere. What went wrong?
According to a survey conducted by PwC, a disappointing and costly 49% of candidates turn down a job offer. In this article, we’ll be looking at what you need to do to ensure you secure the signature on a job offer that you make.
Get Your Job Description Right
A job description is the first hurdle for the employer as well as the candidate. This must be written accurately to ensure you only attract appropriate candidates. Here’s a few key points to remember when writing your job description:
- Specific title – with millions of adverts out there, you must get this right
- Concise but attention-grabbing overview of the company – sell yourself, but keep it simple
- Add an accurate location – this reduces inappropriate and time-wasting applications for both parties
- Do not limit years of experience – you could miss out on a fantastic candidate as a result
- List required skills (hard and soft)
- Highlight benefits, then salary
It’s tricky to get the job description right, but imperative to avoid delays in the recruitment process with applications from the wrong candidates. It’s also the biggest opportunity to sell yourself to top talent.
Act Fast
We live in a fast-paced world. We want solutions and development yesterday. Organizations can’t afford to be slow, and nor can candidates. Yet, research suggests that the recruitment process takes an average of 23.7 days. Particularly in a world that is currently in the depths of a pandemic, your recruitment process needs to act as swiftly as its candidates and competitors.
Of course, the volume of received resumes is also high, and every one of them needs screening to ensure you find that perfect candidate. A specialist recruitment agency can make a huge impact on the effectiveness of fast and accurate screening of candidates, ensuring you have your favored nurse practitioner confidently signing on the dotted line in no time.
Salary or Perks?
It’s important that your candidate is offered the correct salary based on their experience as well as the duties they will be expected to carry out as a nurse practitioner. If you do attract a new recruit at a non-competitive salary, it won’t be long before their work rate reflects this. Worse still, they are likely to be on the hunt for a new post elsewhere.
Offering benefits that prove you care about the wellbeing of your employees will not only attract top talent, but also help to retain them, too.
Have Pride in Your Company Culture
Your organization must build its reputation as having a great and supportive culture in which to work. Make sure your ‘perks’ appear just as essential as the salary in your job description. How you treat your employees and support them is a huge deciding factor for a candidate.
Research how you’re presented online. Check out your reviews on Glassdoor. Would your organization appeal to you if you were you a candidate?
Support in Career Progression
Nobody wants to be in a dead-end job. During the interview process, you should emphasize development opportunities that will be available to the candidate, and how you will provide the support they need to achieve them. Show them that you will take their development within your company seriously, and that they’re applying for so much more than the role itself.
To Sum Up
There’s a lot involved in making sure you get the signature you wanted on that nursing jobs contract. From the advert itself, through the entire recruitment process, to selling all the reasons why the top talent should choose your organization for their nurse practitioner job.
Get in touch with Loyal Source today for a prime recruitment process in the search for stellar candidates for your nurse practitioner jobs and other roles.