Your workforce
is a vital asset to your business, whether you are already an owner of a large
company or just starting up one. For start-up businesses, hiring the ideal
people is a decisive endeavour to take. One that can define whether the new
venture you are about to take is going to prosper or fall. In finding the most
ideal personnel, start-ups can make use of a number of strategies: browsing the
Internet and the newspaper for job postings, seeking job referrals, and hiring staffing services firms.
A huge number of
job applicants still rely on the newspaper for job postings, in spite of the
decline in the sales of newspapers. For one, it doesn’t need the applicant to
be savvy with technology. Second, national dailies still possess a broader
reach.
Partly due to
the increase in accessibility of the Internet, the usage of job portals for
posting job openings and applying for jobs has increased throughout the years.
As the younger generation can easily set parameters to their search for jobs,
they have gone fond of this medium, rather than simply scanning random job
postings in newspaper classified ads.
Campus fairs are
a great place to start off, if your company offers positions that can suit
newly graduates. Rather than announcing a job opening on a job portal or in a
newspaper, this strategy involves going directly to where the job applicants
actually are. This can dramatically cut the entire hiring process short. Much
like campus drives, events held by professional groups can generate the same
results.
You can use
social media sites such as Twitter or Facebook to hire new employees, if your
company has accounts on those. In just a few seconds, people from within your
social network can easily be notified and enquiries concerning the job posting
can start coming in just minutes.
Hiring staffing services, on the
other hand, could be the best alternative for start-up businesses. For
starters, it may decrease the demand on your available staff. In selecting
candidates, recruitment agencies can carry out the legwork for you and you can
enter the process only during the most important phase. Second, in whittling
down the number of candidates, you can use the help of a headhunter. Unlike
posting on a job portal or in a newspaper where many unqualified job applicants,
headhunters can send you only the applicants that have meet the qualifications
you need.
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