Free Recruitment Techniques

Choosing the most effective route to finding candidate's is crucial. Sometimes you may be able to perform the recruitment task for little or no expense other than your own time if you follow a few simple and practical approaches yourself.

What are the Free Ways to Recruit?

NETWORKS - Utilise yours and your colleagues network of business contacts and contact them directly, being open and speaking to your friends, colleagues, bosses and making everyone you know aware you have a need is the first step.

INTERNAL RECRUITMENT - Who internally could you retrain for the role? can you split the role into two and give the added responsibility and additional salary to two or more employees?

FREE ADVERTISING - Have you advertised through the job centre, this costs nothing and due to unemployment being high, you may just strike gold.

SOCIAL MEDIA - Advertise the role on your website, or social media sites you use.

Why Free Recruitment Techniques Fail?

Free recruitment techniques sometimes give excellent results especially recruitment through networking and word of mouth. At times these methods do not reach far enough to identify a suitable candidate who is also available.

Free recruiting relies on the fact that you and your colleagues go out of their way to ask friends and business associates if they know anyone suited, or on someone who is currently looking is seeing your advert on a specific time or day its posted and apply direct. Free recruitment is just that free but hits a very small target audience.

Have you got the Time to Recruit and do it Well?

Remember this way to recruit can take time out of your already hectic schedule, and to do it yourself needs you to have the time available to filter all the applicants CV's, make and take calls from applicants and your contacts, screen out candidates and then checking out their references. Consider your day rate to the business and if you can do this outside of your normal working day. If recruiting in your own time is cost effective for you, to do it yourself. If not, then here are some simple and cost effective ways to get help:

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