This section refers to the documented planning in which a VR agency engages to identify and recruit qualified rehabilitation counselors and other personnel.
Assess your agency’s overall environmental factors, current practices, and culture.
- Look at what is and is not within your control for impact. Determine approaches for handling both.
- Develop a multi-step multi-year approach based on your findings.
Review current recruitment methods.
- Explore new avenues for posting positions (e.g., Facebook, TikTok, InDeed, SRC, CSAVR/NCSAB listservs, universities, and other higher ed institutions that offer degrees in supporting fields, Workforce boards, customers, friends and family.
Degrees in supporting fields include social work, school counseling, special education, human services, psychology, etc.
- Explore SVRAs Recruitment Platforms
- CSAVR Query - Use of social media for Recruitment
- Look at job postings. Consider what you really need vs. perfection. Look at preferred qualifications that can bring that “something extra” to the job (e.g., bilingual candidate).
- Write compelling ads that illustrate the mission-oriented focus.
- Outreach to distance learning graduate programs to recruit new staff. Contact programs out of your norm.
Use the PIMS Job board to post openings.
Resources
- The Top 6 Things Employees Want in Their Next Job (gallup.com)
- New year, new recruitment strategy. | theHRD (thehrdirector.com)
- The Difference Between Hiring and Recruiting
- Ten Great Employee Recruitment Methods
- 10 Recruiting Strategies for Hiring Great Employees
- Recruiting Resources: How to Recruit and Hire Better
- 12 Recruitment Strategies
- Recruitment and Retention of Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors