You’ll often hear others complain about how much money they make — how their income is not enough to pay for their expenses.
Most of the time, they are not wrong. That is why many people work multiple jobs to try to make ends meet. Worse still, the number of people looking for jobs — some of them with really good skill sets — far outnumber the number of job positions available.
However, this does not mean that anyone with a skill set is a good fit for your business. As a business owner, you want to hire the right people — employees with industry-compatible skill sets who can help your team advance and adapt. The long-term success of your company will be decided by the potential of the people you hire.
Getting the right people cannot always be solved by searching out people on job boards (not that this is bad) and offering them too much money to refuse. I have outlined a few unconventional ways of searching out the right talent for your business that go beyond posting an opening online and hoping for the best.
1. Realize that all your employees constitute a human resources (HR) team
You should already have a dedicated HR team, but to increase the reach and effectiveness of your hiring project, you should consider incentivizing all your current employees to pitch in on the search for new hires. You could give them a bonus for recommending a good prospect who gets hired and lasts for a given amount of time — say six months to a year.
Make sure to let them have creative freedom over their hiring strategy: It doesn’t matter whether your employees use word-of-mouth…