One of the challenges that small businesses face is staffing. A lot of the times, small businesses don’t use the standard hiring mediums of large corporations. Instead, they rely on networking and job referrals to find the right person for the job. An article on BusinessWeek.com’s website insights as to where to turn to find the top talent out there looking for a job. Here are their suggestions.
“Small businesses should enlist their current employees as recruiters, essentially selling friends and contacts on the benefits of working at their company,” says Chris Collins, associate professor of human resource management at Cornell University’s school of Industrial & Labor Relations, for BusinessWeek. “Take the price of that ad you were going to run and give it to the person who identifies the candidate who eventually gets hired,” he says. “You’ll probably get a better pool.”
