{"id":562,"date":"2018-08-09T14:12:24","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T13:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/industry\/blog\/industry\/2018\/08\/09\/7-tips-to-hire-the-perfect-candidate\/"},"modified":"2018-11-14T15:32:28","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T15:32:28","slug":"7-tips-to-hire-the-perfect-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/industry\/blog\/cross-industry\/2018\/08\/09\/7-tips-to-hire-the-perfect-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"7 tips to hire the perfect candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe job for life is diminishing in its allure. Candidates are renting out their skills on a temporary tour of duty basis.\u201d <\/strong>Tony Lasocki, Talent Acquisition lead at Microsoft<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Workers may be a bit happier now, but they still don\u2019t see themselves sticking in one job for all that long. Research from the Independent earlier this year\u00a0[1]<\/a> showed that almost half the UK\u2019s workforce will be looking for a job over the next few months. It\u2019s an improvement over 2017. But it\u2019s one so small that, as Gareth Southgate would doubtless say, there\u2019s only a Cr\u00e8me Egg between them.<\/p>\n

So with so many people looking around, finding the right people for a job should be easy as pie, right? Actually, no. The war for talent carries on. Or, as Tony puts it, \u201cIt\u2019s more of a war for skills. We\u2019re regularly market-making in the combination of skills we need to be successful… We\u2019re often seeking that transformational combination of skills that often doesn\u2019t exist in a single package in one individual.\u201d<\/p>\n

The perfect fits are turning down jobs<\/h2>\n

Unfortunately, even when you\u2019ve found what appears to be the perfect candidate, they don\u2019t always sign on the dotted line, let alone stay for life.<\/p>\n

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  • They expect to get higher salaries than you may be prepared to offer. After all, if you think they\u2019re top-notch candidates, the chances are they think so too.<\/li>\n
  • There\u2019s every chance you\u2019re not the only one wooing them. They\u2019re probably able to pick and choose between several opportunities.<\/li>\n
  • If you don\u2019t strike while the iron is hot, you could lose them altogether. In many companies, the recruitment process drags on and on. Good candidates won\u2019t hang around: they\u2019ll get up and go elsewhere.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n