Posted by Every year, a new group of college grads is looking for their first job. Companies sometimes hesitate to hire fresh graduates right after they finish college, but there are many reasons why they should.
Here are 5 tips to attract and recruit fresh graduates:
1. Use creative ways to communicate and market to fresh graduates.
Use creative ways to get the word out to young people for your hiring effort. Utilize social media as well as your website and well-known job boards to get the word out about your roles. Apps like Instagram and TikTok will help you reach a different audience and find talent you might have missed with a more standard approach.
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2. Make yourself known to fresh graduates.
Try to give your group a face to stand out from the rest. Graduates like to work for companies with which they can connect, so use movies on your website and social media to tell people about your company, its culture, and the opportunities it offers. Young people aren’t likely to be interested in a faceless company. Instead, they will connect with and value current employees’ recommendations, especially those in the same early stages of their careers.
3. Try to be the best.
Even though graduates don’t look for their first job expecting to make a lot of money, giving a competitive package of benefits is important. Not only does this make the job possible when the cost of living is rising, but it also shows that the company loves and respects its employees and appreciates what they do to help the company reach its goals.
4. Pay attention to your work growth.
Fresh graduates will want to keep learning and improving their skills, boosting their confidence and making them more useful at work. Fresh graduates will be very interested in a professional development program that gives them multiple chances to get training and do activities that will help them improve their skills.
5. Talk to the people you already have on board.
If this is your first time hiring graduates and you don’t know where to start, talk to the people you already have on staff. Your present employees can give you a lot of ideas and feedback. Find out where they went to college and what would have interested them as younger people in their jobs. Your wider network of stakeholders could also be a good way to find graduates.
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Anisa is a writer who focuses on career and lifestyle topics in an effort to motivate both job searchers and employers towards greater fulfillment in their professional lives.
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