Everyone fall prey of bad habits like few people are too addicted to their phones and check it too many times in a day or some just can’t resist chewing their nails. It’s easy to develop wrong habits and you won’t even realize you have one unless someone put the spotlight on your habits.

Hiring managers and recruiters can also easily all into a few bad habits amidst continuous pressure and challenge to find great talent. And you might not even realize that your behaviors are negatively impacting business. It’s time to raise awareness and make a change. The faster you take control of your recruiting and hiring habits the better it is.

Let’s start by identifying most common bad hiring habits that are likely to stop you from finding the right person for your team:

Lack of Organization

When things are not organized at your workplace you will forget to do important things like follow up with the potential candidates. But following up is the key to ensure that candidates feel important and are on the same page as you of the hiring process. Not following up on right time will result in poor candidate experience and you might also loose best candidates in the market to another job offer.

Weighting one factor above all others

If you have a habit of considering one factor above all, then you’re definitely going to end up making some poor and potentially biased decisions. This will limit your decision to be driven by a single hiring factor, leading you to ignore other major factors that could be telling you a lot about your candidates. Evaluating each candidate in a holistic way is not a good habit. Remember that skills can be learned, personality can’t.

Copy Pasting Job Postings

Many recruiting managers have the habit of using a same template for all the job postings over and over again. Never forget that job postings are a form of sales pitch which needs to be perfect because you need to sell the job to the candidate. Job postings should be crafted in a persuasive manner and contain high quality content. Make sure the job posting highlights exactly what is in it for prospective job candidates.

Making false promises to lure great candidates

Recruiters go through tough times when they don’t find enough candidates, but making false promises to fill your pipeline isn’t a good way. If you are not fully honest with the candidates about the job opening, they will drop out of the hiring process. Even if you end up filling positions based on empty promises you will definitely see a dip in employee retention resulting in high turnover costs.

There are a lot of ways to boost your sourcing tactics to attract great candidates but manipulating a candidate to accept a role will bring you back to square one to find someone to fill that same position after you discover the candidate is not the right fit.

Failing to Stay Up-To-Date with Technology

Modern technology keeps changing quickly. It’s important to keep yourself updated with the latest trends to make sure that you know all the possible ways to recruit and contact your next great hire. Also don’t consider technology as your competition, it can help you reduce a lot of your tasks and save time. Automation can help you organize your hiring process and can improve your hiring decisions.

Closing Thoughts

Leaving bad habits isn’t easy, but realizing and denoting time to address them can help you improve. Bad habits impact your ability to hire top talent directly and it reflects poorly on your company as a whole and brings down your employer brand. Have a crystal-clear picture of whom you want to hire or else it’s will be extra difficult to find them.