How to Rapidly Fill Jobs in a Full Employment Market

• You can't find talent.
• There are no good people out there.
• Your people are exhausted doing the work of two people because you can't fill job openings.

If this sounds like you, then you're in need of a talent makeover. Consider starting with changing out your HR team, who is no doubt doing little more than complaining about the market for employees.

Would you put up with this shenanigans if your sales team was complaining daily how there were no customers to be found? Of course not!

There's plenty of talent out there. How do I know this? Every day, someone writes to me to tell me about their job search. These are qualified candidates, who are struggling to find work. Plus, have you noticed that people are going to work everyday and they're working in someone's office?

That someone may not be you...yet.

Here are three things to consider as you look to rapidly staff your organization.

Ghosting

This term refers to what happens after you’ve interviewed with a company (sometimes more than once) and the person who is supposed to get back to you goes dark. Follow up calls are never returned.

All you have to do is go onto Glassdoor, which many people do before applying for a job, and read about this phenomena, which seems to be gaining momentum.

If people were saying this about a company you were considering, would you even apply? Most likely not, which may explain why many of you falsely believe there is no talent out there.

Ageism

It used to be you were considered over the hill at age 40. That number seems to be dropping. You would think employers would find those with experience to be more valuable, not less. Alas, this doesn’t seem to be the case.

I encourage my clients to widen their nets, not pull them in when searching for talent. Be open to the idea that your next hire may be slightly older or more experienced than the person you initially thought you might be hiring.

And remember, if you’re lucky enough to live that long, you too may one day be considered a has-been. With intention, we can change how mature workers are treated in the workplace.

Laziness

Posting jobs and doing nothing else is not a talent strategy. Currently, we are full employment and have over 7 million job openings here in the U.S. The talent strategy you may have developed two years ago is no longer relevant.

Time and effort must be invested to develop an effective talent strategy for today’s challenging labor market.

Here’s the good news. You don’t need a year and dozens of meetings to set your plan. You can do this in less than a day, which will free you up to implement your strategy.

? Matuson Consulting, 2020.

Are you fully committed to rapidly filling jobs this year with top talent? Reach out to me at [email protected] to arrange for a half-day private talent strategy session (in-person or virtual). The number of sessions I'm doing is limited (only two a month) so if you want in, don't delay.