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Low Cost Ways For Your Small Business To Recruit Good Employees

By Tom Morgan
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One of the greatest challenges for small business owners is to recruit, train, and retain good workers. It’s very tough for a small company, especially in the bootstrapping start-up phase, to compete with bigger companies when it comes to offering competitive salaries and attractive benefits.

But it’s essential to focus on hiring the test people from the very beginning. Hiring mistakes are costly.
A big company can afford a few duds or the payroll, but a small business doesn’t have the time or financial resources to waste on a poor hire.

Here are some low cost ways for your business to recruit good workers:

  • Tell your customers and vendors that you’re hiring. They know your business and can tell you the kind of people they would like to work with.
  • Call other small-business owners and ask if they’ve interviewed any good people they haven’t hired. This isn’t as strange as it sounds. Many times people wish they could hire someone but they don’t have the budget or the timing isn’t quite right.
  • Consider hiring older and younger workers. Students and retired people are a tremendous resource or small businesses. Contact your local business school, community college, or even high school to find a competent student. Students have all the much needed talents and are eager for real world job experience.
  • I found a terrific research assistant through the job board at a nearby journalism school. Inquire about internship programs that offer students class credit for work experience. Sometimes students are willing to work for free if they can get school credit for the job. If not, a good employee is worth paying well.
  • Retired managers and executives not only have tremendous experience and knowledge, but also are often willing to work at a lower rate of pay. Contact your trade or professional association or local chamber of commerce, and rely on word of mouth.
  • Advertise in the local newspaper or in trade publications before you spend a lot of money advertising in major papers. Advertise in trade journals or weeklies serving your industry.
  • Contact your state Employment Development Department. The state can help you find job candidates in many fields. The state also offers training programs and tax incentives for hiring new people, so check out what’s available.
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