It’s one of the longest-standing questions in the hiring world.
Quality or quantity?
Many Hiring Managers think they need to put all their eggs in one basket – to decide on a recruitment strategy and stick to it for the rest of the time.
But the answer for your business might not be as simple as that.
Recruitment is a constantly fluctuating landscape where processes change and strategies are adopted.
Let’s explore the benefits of quantitative and qualitative recruitment to see which is best for your business.
The Benefits Of Quality Recruitment
Firstly, let’s answer the question “What is quality recruitment?”
According to Join.com, Quality of hire is a performance-based recruiting metric that expresses how well a newly hired person meets a company’s expectations and requirements.
Put simply, quality recruitment is measured by the strategic success of a campaign.
Businesses that engage with quality hiring tend to make fewer calls and instead focus on the length of their conversations, as length typically equals quality.
Here are three ways to ensure your hiring process focuses on quality:
- Make your candidate conversations longer
- Ask more detailed questions to qualify candidates better
- Don’t extend the hiring process past its sell-by-date
The Pros Of Quantitative Recruitment
Next up – quantity-based recruitment.
As the name implies, qualitative recruitment focuses more on metrics.
It’s a solution that sits around getting numbers up – calls, submissions and interviews.
The philosophy behind qualitative recruitment is that the more candidates you reach, the higher your chances of success.
Hiring Managers sometimes choose a quantitative approach to recruitment as they believe in the numbers.
Quantitative recruitment, also known as Volume Hiring, is often the preferred approach of businesses that want to hire multiple employees quickly.
Is this similar to your current recruitment process?
These are three key tells:
- Your team make a high volume of calls
- They submit a large number of candidates to a client at once
- They often conduct group interviews for multiple candidates
So, Is Recruitment About Quality Or Quantity?
We’ve analysed what quality and quantity recruitment are about.
But which is actually the best recruitment strategy?
Like many things in recruitment, the answer isn’t as simple as it may first appear.
Many hiring teams try to shoehorn their approach into one of the two camps.
In reality, they probably need a mixture of both.
Companies that put all their eggs into one recruitment basket limit their hiring potential by nearly half.
We recommend that you find your balance between quality or quantity.
The approach that works for you will be different from your competitors.
There isn’t a template for success – you need to find your split between
David Rose Recruitment can help you find that split.
