Hiring | How Efficient and Effective is your Recruitment Process?

As we face into a period of economic turbulence and uncertainty, one thing we can be sure about is that there will be an increased focus on efficiency and effectiveness.

For the foreseeable future, for the majority of businesses, cash will be constrained, and return will need to be optimised on every investment. Whilst I know there are people who will find this a strange perspective, in a funny way this is my favourite sort of market to face into: it drives innovation and forces excellence.

At Amberjack we define efficiency as ‘achieving maximum productivity with minimum wasted effort or expense’. Effectiveness is defined more in terms of eventual outcomes: are you hiring the talent needed to drive business success? For many years we have been working with our clients to help maximise their recruitment efforts and there are a few questions that really help to kick-start a review of the process:

How is your current process performing?