Have you noticed just how much time you spend trying to hire just one engineer for your company? In fact, for many companies, it can take almost 85 hours to hire a single engineer. That’s a lot of time put into finding, vetting, interviewing, and hiring a new employee. Plus, with onboarding, you could be looking at well over 100 hours per engineer you hire. Austin Nichols is here with a few tips to help you hire engineers faster.
Hire a Recruiting Service
While we tend to harp on this one a lot, it is probably the biggest way to save your company time when it comes to hiring a new employee. If you don’t have a recruiter in your company, then it can be very difficult to find new engineers for your company—especially if you are under the pressure of an ever-ticking clock. Get a recruiting service to save your company time during the hiring process.
A recruiting service can take care of a lot of the hard work for you. At Austin Nichols Technical Search, we have a large list of potential candidates that we can contact for you based on the specifications of your available jobs. In fact, we can even help you craft the perfect job description for these jobs. After we have reached out to these candidates, our team can review resumes and conduct the initial phone interviews for your company.
A recruiting service can also help your company throughout the hiring process by setting up in-person interviews and supporting your team throughout the offer and onboarding processes. The resources that recruiting services can provide for companies looking to make engineering hires can greatly reduce the cost and resources used within the company.
Learn to Close
You can make an offer to hundreds of different candidates, but if your offer isn’t great, you might not snag any of the people that you interviewed. The most important thing you can do is learn to properly close the deal with your ideal candidate. Once you have put all of the energy, time, and money into a candidate, you risk losing too much if they don’t accept your offer.
We recommend getting 60 to 75 percent of the people you make an offer to in order to prevent huge losses. If you are below that percentage, it will benefit you to find out why. It could be that your company does something that seems to scare away potential employees, or you aren’t properly matching candidates to your job postings.
Regardless of how many new engineers you are looking to hire, you want to minimize the resources you are using to make new hires. Not only does this help the bottom line, but it also helps you keep current employees from feeling overworked. These three tips can prevent you from spending too much time and money during the hiring process.
If you are looking for engineering candidates in the Kansas City area, contact Austin Nichols today at 816-471-5575. Our team is dedicated to helping you find the best engineers in the area and helping you get them hired as quickly as possible. Since we are a specialty recruiting firm, we know all the right questions to ask of engineering candidates, and we know just how to help you make good hires the first time.
