How to Find Employees

There are more options than ever when searching for new personnel. Since the the most important factor for success lies in the strength of your human capital, your recruiting process is vital to the success of your company. Finding employees can also be the most frustrating and time-consuming endeavor you ever undertake.  This article discusses the options you have and which ones make sense for each situation.

Before you implement any recruiting strategy it is advisable to review your company’s present and future organizational structure and develop a position description. Click here for more information.

There are four basic recruitment options: the Internet, networking, recruitment agencies and classified ads in print.

Internet
Thousands of job related websites now exist, and most have similar functionality from an employer’s perspective:

• Employers post ads for a fee



• Employers may search resume database for a fee



• Site offers a supplementary service which screens candidates’ responses based on their applicability to the employer’s prescribed attributes.  Note that this service can be a big time saver as online ads usually yield hundreds of responses which could also inundate you with irrelevant resumes.

There are essentially four basic categories of online job sites: generalist sites, industry-specific sites, function-specific sites, and level-specific sites.