It doesn’t matter whether you’re a veteran business owner or budding entrepreneur—finding great employees for your business is no easy task. Sometimes it feels like you’re taking a shot in the dark even after you’ve vetted a great candidate with a wealth of experience and knowledge. You just never know how hiring is going to work out in the long-run.
When you’re hiring, you want to find a person who has all the right skills and qualifications to get the job done and one who’s going to contribute new ideas to the business. But you also want to hire someone who fits in with the company culture and who truly enjoys your line of work. Sometimes it can be difficult to find those job candidates—but not if you follow these 5 simple pro tips.
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Post Listings on Job Boards
The internet has made it easier than ever to find great employees for your business. The best way to begin your search is to post your job listing on an online job board. Online job boards can expose your job listing to a massive amount of job seekers–literally anyone around the world who has an internet connection.
The one problem with job boards is that you’ll likely get a massive amount of applications. Thankfully, most job boards feature automated application processing. Basically, an algorithm will search through each and every application and pick a handful of the top candidates, which it finds by searching for relevant keywords that were in your job posting.
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Utilize Your Network
A job board is a great way to draw applications from a broad array of candidates. But you shouldn’t forget to utilize your own network of professionals. Have you worked with any talent at other companies who would be a good fit at yours? Or perhaps you can ask your existing contacts if they know of a talented person who’d be a good fit for your open position.
Networking sites like LinkedIn can be extremely useful to you. On LinkedIn, you can connect with any and all professionals you know, and through those contacts, you can find more prospective candidates who have verified skill sets and qualified experience. Wouldn’t you rather hire someone who’s been recommended by a trusted associate than hire a total stranger?
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Thoroughly Vet Each Candidate
After you’ve interviewed a handful of job candidates, you should thoroughly vet each one to make sure there aren’t any red flags. First, you should enlist a company that performs identity verification for employment. Identity verification will confirm that a job candidate is who they say they are, and that they’re not lying about their personal information or work history. The background check will also tell you whether or not the job candidate has a criminal record.
You should also check each job candidate’s social media profiles to make sure they have inoffensive personalities that don’t reflect poorly upon your business.
Everyone wants to hire an employee who fits well within the work culture, but you should avoid asking overly personal questions during the interview, questions like:
- “Are you religious?”
- “Do you like drinking?”
- “Do you use drugs?”
These questions can get you into legal trouble because they open up the risk of discrimination. It might be a good idea to hire an employment lawyer to help you.
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Enlist Full-Time Recruiters
If your company is growing quickly, you should consider hiring a full-time recruiter. A recruiter will sort through hundreds of job applications and find the best employees for your business. What’s nice about having an in-house recruiter is that they’ll know what your company culture is like and they’ll have a good idea what skills are needed to get the work done—and they’ll take a huge load off your shoulders. If you don’t have money for an in-house recruiter, consider enlisting a hiring agency for your company.
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Organize Yourself
If you don’t properly organize yourself, the hiring process can spin out of control very quickly. It’s important to keep track of when you’re scheduling interviews, and you should also take avid notes on each job candidate and denote what you liked and didn’t like about their interview. This will help you choose between candidates when you’re coming to the end of the hiring process. Use a note-taking app when you’re scheduling and conducting interviews to help you commit everything to memory.
Hiring is tough, but if you follow these 5 easy steps, you’re sure to find an employee that seems born for your business.
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