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Recruitment leaders wanting to improve the performance of their recruiters has never been a more valid goal.

Don’t miss the chance to improve recruiter performance by ignoring what’s “between the chair and the keyboard”. You need an agile, cost-effective, inclusive recruitment training solution, to improve / scale / protect your recruitment business.

Perhaps you’re looking to scale your recruitment business this year?
Or stay the same size, but do more with what you already have (people, data, systems)?

What could you consider when needing to improve performance, increase productivity in the coming months?

Improving Recruiter Performance Has Never Been Easier

I’ve written about Kaizen, 1% marginal gains, and improving recruiter performance. I've presented at the Recruitment Agency Expo about improving recruiter performance with automation.

Kaizen is about standards, reduced waste, high-performance - which is a passion for my clients.

Now is the perfect opportunity for recruitment leaders to "Kaizen".

Scale at Speed – Improve Performance

Before the pandemic, 70% of recruiters admitted that they didn’t have enough training. Even if that's not true of your recruitment business, it’s likely since 2020 you’ve been “a little” distracted to focus on totally fixing recruiter performance.

Recruitment training is obviously key…

But your goals for training are often not achieved by traditional training and recruitment coaching. (And often the only people who get full ROI from training are those who deliver it and charge you for it.)

Now with systems evolution, data volumes, and hybrid working, a new approach is needed.

… This is where online training steals the march.

6 Reasons Why Online Recruitment Training is a Must

1. It's Cheaper and Agile🤑

You can either spend £€$1,000s getting recruiters in the same place at the same time, often as a "one and done" training session.

You can give your recruiters regular, digestible online training so they can learn and relearn ~ continuous training is the only type of training that actually works!

You're likely looking for stronger screening and job qualification, improving CRM adoption, and reduced reliance on job boards. Use cost-effective online learning to create best-practice agility.

2. Less Reliance on You – Less Stress😱

This is definitely a year to be working on your business, so the time-consuming task of you and your managers training new starters needs a rethink. I spoke with a recruitment manager recently who admitted 2 things:

She didn’t know Bullhorn well enough to train her new starter (a common case study).
When she hired a new recruiter, her fees dropped significantly for 3 months.

Regular and refreshed training for her and her new starters helped her rapidly re-skill, and took away the pressure of onboarding new recruiters. The rookies started billing quicker too!

3. More Effective💪

Online learning boasts retention rates at a massive 60% (compared to 10% traditional training) and you learn 5 x more with online learning.

Plus, learning at your desk – in the environment where you are delivering your job – is more effective.

Online learning is often minutes not hours. I know in recruitment speed is just as important as pipeline.

Yes, we’ve all had horrific, disengaging, online learning experiences. Don’t let past experiences prevent future gains. Plus new recruiters prefer online.

Whether it’s increased sourcing speed, or improving CV to Interview ratios, you need quick, self-serve effective recruitment training. You can’t afford to not improve.

4. It’s “Just in Time” and Easier⌚

Freeing up a team of busy recruiters, and getting them all synchronised and focussed is a tough gig.

Why disrupt your recruiters when they can log on for 15 minutes, learn a new recruiting hack, log off, and get back on the phone and practice what they’ve learned?

“Always on”, continuous learning for recruiters is key to creating accountability and a sense of recruiters feeling in control of their careers.

5. It’s Inclusive, Hybrid and Remote Friendly🟰

I get that managing a remote/hybrid recruitment team is challenging.

Maintaining standards, keeping everyone engaged, and delivering “your way” was tough enough pre-pandemic.

6. Prevents Churn 💩

Glib quotes around not training recruiters and having them stay are not needed here.

Acknowledge that recruiters crave training and will leave without it. In fact, a whopping 2/3 of people leave due to lack of training.

The last thing any recruitment leader needs right now is to lose valuable recruiters, or indeed take too long to train new starters.

More Reasons Online Recruitment Training Works

Other viable reasons why online training is crucial in recruitment. Recruitment training:

Gives recruiters control – accountability.
Better for the environment.
Gamification drives engagement and performance.
Flexible and mobile – where you want, when you want.
Self-paced – different people learn at different speeds hence you need to allow for that.
Improves the ROI from your internal training. Trainers can focus more on coaching performance rather than repeatedly training new recruits - blended learning works.

Final Word on Recruitment Training

Whether you’re looking to improve your recruiter performance, generate ROI from your people, data, systems, or just create a better experience for your candidates and clients, training is crucial.

Just be sure that the recruiter training you buy is engaging, easy, relieves stress and pressure on you and your team, and is cost-effective.

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6 Reasons Why Online Recruitment Training is a MUST