Recruiting Staff Needn’t Cost A Fortune
by Danny Brown on March 28th, 2008
An important part of any company’s success is the staff it employs. Although the management team may be the driving force behind a business, the people on the “ground floor” are just as important - without them your business would probably struggle to meet demands. Therefore it’s important that you attract the right caliber of employee.
Often this can be extremely expensive, with advertising costs in newspapers rising all the time. However, there are other methods in which you can recruit new employees, and often at a fraction of the overall cost of traditional advertising. Some of the most effective methods include:
* Advertise on your website. Many people looking for jobs will often use online searches to find companies in the industries that interest them. If they find your website, then having employment vacancies on your site is a great way to attract new employees. Plus it’s free, so the cost-effectiveness is 100%.
* Use online resources such as Craigslist. This is a hugely popular method for jobseekers to search for the latest job vacancies, and more and more employers are turning to this approach. With the web being such an integral part of everyday life, websites such as Craigslist has become normal for millions of Internet users everywhere. Again, like advertising on your website, it’s free to post on Craigslist and the results can speak for themselves.
* Recruitment agencies can also be a relatively low-cost way of finding your next employee. Although many of the larger ones can be expensive, many smaller agencies will charge you an extremely reasonable rate to find potential employees for you. This also saves you money by taking away advertising costs, and you can even employ someone via an agency on a trial basis. This means that the agency pays the employee’s wages, eligible holiday pay, etc, and that lets you determine whether the employee is right for you or not before taking on full-time.
* Job fairs can also offer excellent ways of meeting jobseekers in a cost-effective manner. Because of the way that job fairs are set up, there will be literally thousands of potential employees being put in front of your company. Now compare these figures to how much it would cost to advertise several hundred times to find the same amount of potential employees, and you can see why job fairs are becoming more popular with both businesses and employees.
* Perhaps one of the most effective ways of advertising for or attracting new staff is simply by having an open day at your place of business. This can be advertised in your local newspaper, and it will ensure that people that are genuinely interested in working for your company will come along.