Five great tips found on OpenForum.com on how businesses can creatively recruit new talented employees. Our thoughts were that the only problem with recruiting great talent is that sometimes, the business’s leadership team also needs to learn how to “retain” talented employees :).
At some point you can no longer hide behind “Oh, they just didn’t work out” there has to be some accountability and self analysis in leadership as well….So, we start here with Recruitment:
Want to read more about recruiting? Check these out:
- How To Use Facebook To Recruit Employees
- How To Optimize Your LinkedIn Company Profile For Recruiting
- 9 iPhone Apps For Managing The Recruiting Process
Looking for a co-founder? If your business is more of an idea than an actual company, there are plenty of tools available online to help you out. Cofoundr is an online network for entrepreneurs. You can easily search and find people interested in the same kind of startup.
3. Go viral. Formashape, a Canadian manufacturing company, placed a single billboard outside their plant that read “Trespassers Will Be Hired.” A local reporter noticed the ad and wrote an article about how it was a cool way to attract talent. That one article resulted in hundreds of job applications, not to mention great publicity.
4. Revamp your website. Your business may have a great work environment, but potential applicants can’t see that. More likely, they’ll see what comes up when they google you. If your website reflects the fun, unique culture of your company, it’ll make people want to work there. Include messages or blog posts from employees. Add pictures and videos to illustrate life on the job. Once you’ve got people interested, make it easy for them to apply by posting open positions and job descriptions.
5. Go where the talent is. Don’t wait for talent to find you—go find them. If you’re looking for developers, check out the Hacker News network. Check out Tumblr or Mediabistro to find aspiring writers. And don’t underestimate the untapped talent of graduating seniors. Colleges have career centers, job fairs and sometimes their own job listings websites. Students are eager to learn, looking for employment and full of new perspectives.
Then we move on here with thoughts towards Retention:
Quite sure you’ve heard “a business is only as good as its leader”. Our take on this is that the business leader has to have some type of leadership & interpersonal skills in order to be able to relate to their staff enough to keep them motivated and attached to business’s primary goal and focus.
There is nothing worst than hating to go to your place of employment, but feeling obligated to tolerate -whatever due to personal circumstances by which you need that income. No one can build a successful business alone…it takes a team of dedicated individuals to attach themselves to the owner’s vision for that company and move forward with it.
It is most important, that leaders know to “appreciate” their staff...and not in just words. Sincerely appreciate & support your staff to such a degree until they find coming to work a safe haven rather than a place that they spend most of their time and hate being their . It is important to train your managers to understand that the staff they oversee are not their pets, or children, but adults. In all honesty, there are not sane adults who will authorize someone to yell, scream or belittle them- ever; and adults no matter how bizarre some are, have aged to a point of requiring respect and foremost being spoken to in a respectable tone. Yes, of course you can’t make everyone happy; but you can alleviate that problem often times by really paying attention to that person during your initial interview with them to see if they will fit into the scope of functioning personalities that already exist between you & your current staff . Always strive to plant seeds of goodness in your staff, when those seeds began to bud & harvest, your business will reap the benefits. Nonetheless, when one chooses not to plant seeds of goods, life has a way of bringing those who impositions to a full circle…you never know who you may need or have to answer to if they tables were to turn ;-)
We are firm believers in building relationships…be it clients, staff or even strangers. It really helps to just treat people how you want to be treated. We have found that it works, whenever you find that it doesn’t it is time to sever or change that particular relationship. Be good to your staff and they will in turn be good, loyal employees for years to come.
Final Thought: “Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned. It is practices not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.” –Harold Geneen, ITT Former CEO
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