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Recruiting During a Recession
How should I approachrecruitment during arecession?
 A recession is a bad thing for the majority of businesses, but recruitment doesn’t have to stop.
All businesses have cycles — periods when you're unbelievablybusy, periods where you can take a bit more time to breathe. Itstands to reason that your recruitment plans will closely follow thesecycles.When a recession hits, or when the busy periods become less andless frequent, your recruitment plans will undoubtedly be affectedand it's important for all businesses to have plans in place to workthrough the period in as smooth a way as possible.Due to the recession creating issues in recruitment one possibility isto look at how you can shift talent internally. Liaise betweendepartments to ensure an even balance throughout the organization.You will obviously need to discuss any possible changes in career paths with employees, but it's often possible to adjust roles andresponsibilities if they're attractive enough (and almost anything ismore attractive than the prospect of unemployment).Try to find the root cause behind your businesses current downturn.Aim to set triggers in advance that could show if bad times lieahead. Whatever you do, make sure you don't just give up!
 
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Resist a blanket hiring freeze
- Invest in the sector you thinkcould pull your business up, especially if there is a lot of goodtalent in the market due to other companies makingredundancies. 
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Review your suppliers
- whoever you use to assist in your recruitment efforts (creative agencies, staffing firms,advertisers, etc), you should look to assess how safe your agreement are with them.
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Revise recruiting targets
- observe your cost per hire, time tohire and retention rates to determine how you can display thatyou are having positive results despite the general downturn inbusiness.
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Focus priorities -
looking at the various recruiting methodsyou use and working out which have returned the best resultscan help make improvements at low costs.
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Prepare for more applications -
a recession means morepeople are out of work, which means you will generally see ahigher number of applications per vacancy.
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Combine resources -
if you work for a large business thatgenerally manages hiring needs on a local level, it's wise tolook at ways you can share both knowledge and resources
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Show you're a secure option -
if you're trying to attract newemployees during a recession it's important that you show inyour job adverts that if someone joins your business, theywon't be made redundant before they finish their probation.
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quarrelsomedrin

Thanks. Great tutorial mate... Here's the Video Tutorial: http://bit.ly/cXQPGN - If you prefer video like myself. Don't get me wrong, I still like ur tutorial!

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