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Presenting for your reading pleasure, the real name of this topic...

Internet recruiting!

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Easily achieved by merely:

  • Uncovering sterling candidates who would be the key to success for your company's future

  • Establishing the communications to sell your position to said candidates

  • Compelling them to first consider and then accept your offer without being seduced by the counter offer

  • And living happily ever after.

  • And then skyrocketing your company's profits for years higher than Mt. Everest.

  • And then receiving a bonus more huge than the Starship Enterprise.

  • Did I mention the future promotion from your directors because of their sheer joy in your hiring expertise?

Really. That's what it's all about.

In other words, finding potential employees online isn't just about uncovering the freaking free resumes! You can find beeyons and beeyons of potential candidates. Big whoop. The key is:

  • First determining exactly what your goals for a new hire are, and then

  • Finding active and passive candidates (the ones whom aren't actively looking for a job yet would be intrigued by your offer

  • Providing them with a compelling overview of what you've got to offer

  • Scheduling useful interviews

  • Dealing with counter-offers

  • Wrapping up the deal

  • etc.etc.etc.

Thus, let's commence with:

Before You Begin - Using Recruiters or Job Boards

Third party recruiters are there to do all the tedious work for you. The good ones will spend 100s of hours patiently combing thru their network pipeline of candidates for you, matching up people with your requirements, scheduling interviews and the like. If time is money, using recruiters could be extremely helpful indeed.

Some places to consider are:

But what if you want to find your future employees yourself? It's time for:

Step 1 - Prepare Your Job Post

Great job posts will have the following information:

  • What's in it for me? - Great job posts highlight first and foremost why it's a great opportunity.

  • Perks and benefits - What does your company offer that would appeal to candidates? Things like diversity, location, commute, flextime, school/elderly care, continuing education, dearth of corporate politics, appreciation, title....the list goes on and on.

  • The job itself - Precise requirements help you winnow down the number of loser resumes you might receive.

  • Eye-catching title - You want quality viewers. Sure you entitle your job posting "developer", but you'd probably get far better responses with a title like "Are you the Michael Jordan of programming?"

  • Contact information - Do yourself a favor - always make certain your contact info is spelled correctly (ie, don't misspell .com as .cmo. Yep, it happens...a lot more frequently that you would think).

among other things. Always remember to write your job posts from the point of view of the candidate reading them. My colleague wrote the excellent guide Job Posting Profits; you might find it most useful.

Once your job post is completed, you need to submit it! There are bunches and bunches and bunches and (3 hours later) bunches and bunches of places to which you can submit. Some to consider are:

That covers creating and submitting your job post...but how will you handle all the resumes that flow in? It's now time for:

Step 2 - Applicant Tracking Systems

Hiring more than one person? Consider an ATS (applicant Tracking System). These softwares can read in resumes, keep track of your contacts with the candidates and much much more.

There are some great discussions about ATS out there such as:

So what's next? Well, there's the interview of course. What about...

Step 3 - Background Checks

One way to check on a prospective candidate is to simply search his/her name via a search engine such as google. Appending a subject might work well too as you can see from my colleague's results:

Barbara Ling

Another way to investigate a potential hire is to do a background check. Should you consider this route, definitely investigate the following resources:

Some excellent books to consider are:


Hiring Success: The Art and Science of Staffing Assessment and Employee Selection (Pfeiffer Essential Resources for Training and HR Professionals)
Customer Reviews —
Editorial Reviews — ... Product Description | Hiring Success is a comprehensive guide for using staffing assessments to hire the best employees. Research-based, but written in easy-to-understand terms, the book explains what staffing assessments are, why they work, and how to use them. Hiring Success is an important resource for improving the accuracy and efficiency of hiring selection decisions and effectively incorporating assessments into any company’s staffing process....more

Criteria for evaluating and hiring employees.(EMPLOYMENT): An article from: The Business Owner
Editorial Reviews — ... Product Description | This digital document is an article from The Business Owner, published by Thomson Gale on July 1, 2007. The length of the article is 574 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: Criteria for evaluating and hiring employees.(EMPLOYMENT) Author: Gale Reference Team Publication: The...more

A Small Business Guide to Employee Selection: Finding, Interviewing, and Hiring the Right People (Self-Counsel Business Series)

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