Why a talent bench could be the ultimate answer to your hiring needs
When it's time to hire, there are often a host of challenges involved in the process. These difficulties can range from finding people with the right set of qualities and skills, through to waiting for the ideal talent to become available. Now, smarter companies have found a solution. By building a talent bench, resourcing those key vacancies becomes a rapid, seamless experience, saving your organisation time, money, and stress.
What is a Talent Bench?
A talent bench is a pool of candidates who have been pre-selected as being an ideal fit for a company's needs. This may involve picking professionals with a certain set of technical capabilities, or, as is becoming increasingly common, the right soft skills that allow such talent to fit into existing teams without disruption to the existing corporate culture. Think of it as your players waiting on the sidelines of a game, or the understudies in a play: they have all the skills needed for your key positions, and are ready and waiting to step into your team.
Fix The Skills Gap
When you create a ready-made pool of talent, to be kept at your disposal, you can really focus on what you want from your employees. By building a bench with candidates that cover all of the essential - and even the desirable - capabilities that you need in your teams, you need not worry about a problematic skills gap that can hamper your brand's business development. Rather than rush through the recruitment process in order to bring in a new employee who may offer some of the skills or qualities you need, if you've taken the time to build a talent pool, you can relax without time pressure, knowing that you already have the perfect candidate available to you.
Reduce Your Time To Fill
One of the key metrics in any hiring process, having a pool of talent ready will also reduce this period, which will benefit your organisation in a number of ways. Your candidate bench will be pre-vetted, speeding up the process of filling those key positions, and obviating the need for a lengthy application and interview process. By accessing and integrating the talent you need faster, you will be able to achieve your business's objectives in a shorter time frame.
Save On Costs
As most wise business leaders are all too aware, it's always more cost-effective to be proactive, rather than reactive. A talent pool allows you to stay in control, having taking proactive steps to identify the ideal candidates for your unique needs, saving valuable time and money when it's time to fill a position. It makes sense, both financially and in practical terms.
And, the chances are that even if your organisation is yet to build its own candidate bench, your competitors will already have done so. This could place your business at a significant disadvantage, as they could be moving forward with their development goals whilst you are still sending out job adverts.
Build Your Ideal Talent Bench
There's an easy way to create your perfect candidate pool, and that is by partnering with the experts. By working with DJR, you can stay ahead of the curve because we will help you to identify and secure the right talent for your organisation.
Why not get in touch today, on 0203 070 9019, at DJR, The Smith, 145 London Road, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, KT2 6SR, or at contact@wearedjr.com, and discover how DJR can help your company build its own bench filled with your ideal talent.