How to Hire First Recruitment Manager for your Startup?

Do you know that a good recruitment manager is crucial for your company while a dire one can destroy your business culture?

Hiring the right person for the position of recruitment manager is the most crucial thing, specifically, when you are starting a new business.  The very first thing organization do is recruiting a manager who will provide the best human resource for their business. For this you need a professional who is not over confident or rude in nature, because this is the position, which represents new your company to new people and employees. The first employee to be hired by the CEO of any company will, and should, be a human resource manager or recruitment manager.

The major risk involved, while hiring a recruitment person, is that there is a healthy amount of chances that as time passes, your dear recruitment manager may start showing negative behavior. You must have heard about ‘Power Corrupts’ notion, the exact case we are talking about. Some of the people start showing this behavior instantly; however, there are some that are nice in the beginning but show their true colors after people start trusting them. The position requires a person with good analytical skills with a hefty amount of understanding and respect for others.  Listen clear and loud, if your hiring authority is missing on any of the two mentioned things, better start searching for new employees and be ready to lose some of your best staff.

The person must be an able judge of personality and understand the psychic of new employees so that they can hire right people.  The essential elements of trust, integrity and understanding of particular industry are very much important. A professional recruitment manager possesses strong gut feelings, it may sound off the beat but it really is the case. He is aware of the duties and responsibilities associated with the position and sift the best talent in the company’s available funds. They have a constant pressure of hiring the best people at competitive salaries, in available funds and of course, in the best of their interests.

I must say recruitment management is an art and a beauty to utilize the skills and experience. One of the foremost things is to select a person who has commendable work experience and professional, these people learn the appropriate skills with the passage of time. As a startup you may be tempted to hire a fresh graduate, limited resources, scarce funds are major hurdles but fresh graduates theoretical knowledge and what you need is practical working and real experience.

The main question arises is how to hire the best recruitment manager especially in a startup business. Take the first step by searching recruitment managers on LinkedIn, view their profiles and try to approach them. Second step would be to place an advertisement on your countries most reliable job portals. Do not put job vacancy on all the portals but the selective one, whom you think that you can get a very good pool. Third step is to talk to recruitment managers who you know very well and are the part of industry.

The people that you have approached via LinkedIn, if they are interested in the job, call them for interview. While conducting the interview, look for the qualities like punctuality, personality, cleanliness, concern about the office, its environment, qualifications, expertise, experience and most importantly, the degree to which that person is eager to learn and contribute to your corporation. You should also asked the person questions related to recruitment management, to judge the basic knowledge, present different scenarios and talk about his experience to judge his capabilities to cope with different situations.

Check the intelligence, quickness in responses, understanding of minds and of different situations where he/she can handle it easily. Do ask some general questions and show friendly mode so that you can know that the person is just talking or the person in real is suitable for the job. Do conduct three interviews minimum, so that you can judge the person. For selection of particular candidate for the current position talk about the salary and benefits that your business would offer. You must ask for reliable and relevant references from industry. On the other hand, if you are unable to find the right candidate, shortlist the resumes that you have received from job portals.

Again, follow the same procedure, because you might get the correct person for the job. You have to trust a person whom you are delivering the duty because trust is the most crucial aspect in business. There are thousands of people who have availed a really good degree in management field and are looking for jobs. It is your duty to understand the behaviors and commitment of other person to work for and with you.

In the end, I would say that if you hire the right person than you will get the team of reliable employees. Recruitment manager’s duty is to bring the best talent on board and talent acquisition is the game of hiring the talented people in the market.