The score is tied, 3-3 and it’s the bottom of the ninth with two outs and you’re standing at the plate. Now that’s major-league, contract-dangling, pressure. Oops, wrong sport. It’s the start of Q3 and you’re down 2 recruiters with 78 open positions over 60 days old and you’re about to meet with the executive team. Now that’s boardroom-serious, job performance questioning, pressure. What are you going to do different to drive results? Access the webinar with top recruiting panelists here: http://resources.rpoassociation.org/top-recruiting-challenges-webinar/

1. Top Recruiting Challenges
A Panelist Discussion
September 25, 2014
Presented by: Novotus

2. Welcome
Mike Mayeux
Founder & CEO
Novotus
Ryan Stockwell
VP, Talent Acquisition
Novotus
Melinda Gotcher
Director, Talent Acquisition
Novotus
Jen Iliff
VP, Marketing
Novotus

3. Challenges Challenges Challenges
Reducing Time-to-Fill
Improving Hiring Manager Satisfaction
Competing for Candidates
Reducing Turnover

4. Set The Stage Challenge #1
Reducing Time-to-Fill

5. Time to Fill is:
Texas Employment Outlook Survey 2014

6. Speed of Hire Impacts Revenue

7. #1 Reducing Time-to-Fill
● Anticipate needs, proactive pipeline
● Strong employment brand including talent pool capture
(form on website) and communication to key individuals
- Talent Community
● Streamlined process, emphasizing the immediate action
plan upon opening.
● Hiring Manager interaction is critical.
● Targeted Recruiting Effort. No Shotgun approach.

8. Set The Stage Challenge #2
Improving Hiring
Manager Satisfaction

9. HM Sat Ranks High on Priority List
Staffing.org 2014 Trends Report
2nd Highest
Priority
Measurement

10. #2 Improve Hiring Manager Satisfaction
● Defining HM Satisfaction
○ Data
○ Feelings
● Measuring HM Satisfaction
○ Baseline
○ When and How

11. #2 Improve Hiring Manager Satisfaction
● Driving HM Satisfaction
○ Response Rate
○ Set the stage
○ Follow Up

12. #2 Improve Hiring Manager Satisfaction
● Analyzing HM Satisfaction
○ Improvement Expectations
○ Trending
○ Sharing

13. #2 Improve Hiring Manager Satisfaction
● Next Level
○ Recruiter Satisfaction Survey
○ Quality of Hire

14. Set The Stage Challenge #3
Competing for
Candidates

15. Staffing Impacts
Staffing.org 2014 Trends Report

16. Competition for Employees is:
Texas Employment Outlook Survey 2014

17. #3 Competing for Candidates
● Understand the market for your talent:
○ Competition - Who’s hiring the same talent?
■ Compensation Packages & Value Proposition
○ Identify your strengths to emphasize.

18. Set The Stage Challenge #4
Reducing Turnover

19. Cost of Turnover Underestimated

20. #4 Reducing Turnover

21. Recruiting can reduce turnover

22. Other Challenges
● Equipping Recruiters with the best tools (without
breaking the bank)
● Managing the “marketing” aspects of recruiting
● Improving the selection process
● Managing Multiple Recruiting Channels and Reducing
the “noise” factor

23. About Novotus
• Founded in 2002, located in Austin, Texas with remote recruiters
located throughout the U.S.
• Founding Member of the Recruitment Process Outsourcing
Association (RPOA)
• Thousands of hires in 2013 in North America along with seven
other countries
• Consistent 35% annual growth
• Ranked as #1 Mid-Market RPO Firm by HRO Today 2014 Baker’s
Dozen
• Ranked as highest RPO Provider by Human Resource Executive
and the Outsourcing Institute
• Inavero/CareerBuilder’s Best of Staffing™ Client Satisfaction
award 3 consecutive years
• Telly Award™ winner for creation of corporate career site video

24. Questions?

25. Thank You
Lamees Abourahma
lamess@rpoassociation.org
804-638-4448
Mike Mayeux
myu@novotus.com
512-733-2244