Calls for more tips to recruit good staff answered by Jimmie Wilkins
Finding Employees – where?
I found the “creative” tips (excerpted from “113 Tips for Finding Valuable Employees” and “107 Tips for Recruiting Valuable Employees” www.publicityhound.com ) for finding great employees when the traditional models are not giving you what you need:
1. Give your business card to friendly, helpful people who you would like to work at your business, and include a short note on the back asking them to call you.
2. Contact women's crisis centers. Be sure to mention any special child care benefits you are offering, such as flexible scheduling.
3. Target people who volunteer their services at places such as hospital gift shops and non profit agencies. Give them fliers that read, "If you want to get paid for what you're doing for free, call us."
4. Call every good employee who has ever worked for you and left. You might find one who would love to come back but is too embarrassed to contact you. Be sure to ask them why they left.
5. Recruit at senior recreation centers where you might be able to lure the elderly out of retirement for part time jobs.
6. When you shop in your own neighborhood, also shop for new employees who are friendly and helpful. Temporary workers who are hired over the holidays and during the summer might want to eventually work for you.
7. Post Help Wanted notices in high traffic government offices such as the Department of Motor Vehicles.
8. Buy recruiting ads on restaurant placemats. To keep costs down, see if several other local non competing businesses will buy ads too. Print the placemats yourself and offer them free to restaurants.
9. Place magnetic signs that say "We're hiring. Call " on your cars, trucks or vans.
10. Conduct annual or semi annual surveys of employees. Ask these questions: Why do you like to work here? What can we do better? What are the most important factors in your job satisfaction?
These are not traditional. No doubt. Don’t abandon the obvious – the employment office, the classifieds and the staffing agencies. But – if you are not getting what you want – you may need to “get out of the box”. Be creative!
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