Labour turnover is a big part of every industry and occupation including the warehouse industry. Sometimes the labour turnover rate is so high that you may need to find warehouse workers. This can be an exhausting exercise, especially if you’re concentrated on finding the right warehouse operative or employee. So, how do you find a good warehouse employee?
What makes a good warehouse employee, and how do you know you’re hiring one? The best approach to finding the right employee is to use a Recruitment Agency or consultant such as ours, Starboard Personnel Recruitment Agency, Barnsley. But should you want to recruit by yourself, here are a few tips on what to do to get the best results.
1. Define the Needed Skill Set
In finding the right warehouse employees, you need to first be specific about the skill you want from them. Work positions at warehouses are diverse. For this reason, you need to set out the specific skill sets required for the particular job opening you’re filling. In your recruitment advert, clearly define the required skills as well as any educational or physical skills.
2. Use Referral From Current Employees
Your current crop of warehouse employees can serve as a network of referrals for your future recruitments. It is a common and effective way warehouses find suitable and experienced warehouse operatives, while also rewarding their staff.
Staff whose candidates get employed are rewarded. Such a scheme makes sure your workers only refer qualified workers that measure up to the warehouse’s standards. This takes a bit of the workload from HR during the recruitment process.
3. Look Past CVs
Sometimes, the right person for the job is more than what is on their curriculum vitae. And they may not even do so well at interviews either. Along with their skills and whatever prior job history they possess, also look out for dedication, reliability, motivation, and independence. These are some of the useful attributes a CV will not show you.
4. Exhaust All Available and Affordable Advert Channels
There may be a tendency to stick to one channel of recruitment when finding the right warehouse employee. While this could be time-saving and cost-effective, it may lead to employing incompetent hands for your warehouse.
This is why you need to exhaust all available and affordable recruitment channels. You could mix contracting a recruitment agency and getting your employees to refer workers.
5. Better Wages and Working Conditions
There’s little doubt about the fact that better pay and wages attract some of the best and more qualified workers. This is true for warehouse recruitment as it is for any industry. If your wage isn’t competitive when compared with other warehouse companies in your industry, you may be on an endless cycle of attracting the wrong candidates. Besides, unsatisfactory warehouse working conditions will drive away from the right warehouse employee. So to attract quality, make sure you are as qualified as well.
Conclusion
Warehouse operatives and employees are the backbones of the warehouse business. Getting recruitment wrong may ruin the productivity of a warehouse and in a pool of hundreds and thousands of employable warehouse workers, getting the right fit could be a challenge. This is where we, Starboard Personnel Recruitment Agency, Barnsley, a recruitment agency steps in.