School districts hire a large number of new staff members each year, and it’s important to hire the right people on the first try. Hiring the right candidate can take a lot of time. Here are five tips to streamline and automate some of your school district’s HR recruiting processes.
Define Your Process Thoroughly and Early
In school business process management, it's important to have a thorough understanding of processes before making changes. Before you begin to integrate K-12 workflow automation tools into your district’s HR recruiting practices, outline the processes that you use to recruit personnel before taking other steps. Doing so will highlight where you can automate and streamline your processes. It also makes it easier to help applicants and recruiting staff navigate processes without delays.
Advertise Your Requirements Consistently and Often
The fastest way to improve your school workflow management processes is to include your paperwork, credential, and hiring requirements early in discussions with applicants. This will reduce the number of delays in processing applications, as applicants will have the right information on the first attempt. Make sure that every place and discussion where the requirements are listed match so that there is no confusion.
Automate Information Intake Processes
Use K-12 process automation software and systems to collect the required information. Online systems allow you to collect, monitor and process K-12 forms with minimal effort. These systems also reduce your personnel and other costs by requiring less physical paperwork, travel and man hours to process.
Check Applicant’s Credentials Before Reaching Out
Review the information provided by applicants to ensure that they seem to be an appropriate fit for the position before reaching out. Doing so allows you to disqualify candidates and remove them from the review process. This eliminates wasted man hours from your school district's HR recruiting process, which saves the district money and reduces applicants’ processing times.
Process Forms and Complete Procedures Once
To improve your school district’s K-12 business process management practices, make sure that all documents and required information are present before processing anything. This reduces the number of processing attempts by ensuring that everything can be processed at the same time. There won’t be delays because you have to wait on more documentation. This reduces much of the frustration from the district’s staff and the applicants, making the process faster and more pleasant for everyone.
Since school districts recruit a large number of people each year, their processes must be streamlined as much as possible. Use these five tips to streamline and automate some of your school district’s HR recruiting processes to reduce your district’s costs and improve efficiency.
Additional Resources:
http://www.inc.com/adam-vaccaro/the-future-of-recruiting-automation.html
http://www.unicornhro.com/articles/benefits-of-automating-human-resources--an-overview
http://smallbusiness.chron.com/streamline-work-process-improve-work-flow-3929.html
