Holiday hiring is heating up! How to Find the Best Holiday Workers

While the holiday season brings with it the biggest, and often the best, business problem that many retailers face – too much business – business owners can turn this busy time of year into the most profitable and manageable through better hiring practices.

Though the typical holiday season signifies employee turnover, expanding store hours, and longer employee shifts, some best practices in hiring and recruiting can help retailers deliver a strong sales-focused end to the year.  Recruiterbox, a resume management and applicant tracking tool, offers the following tips to ensure happy holiday hiring:

• Treat employees like the resource they are. Current workers can quickly spread the hiring word. Empower them to do so with social sharing: posts to Facebook, Twitter, and even professional networking sites can help them carry hiring messages to the right people.
• Work better. Forget the days of resume-flooded inboxes and enter the world of automation and applicant tracking. Recruiting tools offer a streamlined, cost-effective way to collect resumes and keep track of interactions with candidates – all in one place.
• Put your eggs in one basket. Build a database of candidates to reference as jobs open up. Even if a candidate isn’t hired this year, they could be perfect for a future initiative. Make sure to maintain a pool of talent to tap into when it comes time to expand.
• Let multiple hands reach into the cookie jar. Recruiting and hiring both require a lot of effort, and it’s often more than one person can handle. Managing the process with notes, prioritizing, and applicant staging lets users invite other important decision-makers into the mix, excelling the speed of the hiring process.