Recruiting for a New Start-Up

When starting a new business, there are multiple challenges you are likely to face. Beginning with finances, and moving on to operations, office space, and finally a very crucial aspect – recruiting and staffing.

Largely depending on the nature and size of your business, you will require all kinds of staff right from administrative, sales, marketing, to accounting and even executive.

So how would one advice to go about recruiting for a start up?

The answer is to go all out and leave no stone unturned. You will need to fill multiple positions and across levels. Just spreading the word or placing an advertisement will not help. It is important that you tap all possible avenues for resumes and prospective employees.

·     Network- As much as you can and spread the word that you are hiring. Tell your prospective clients and vendors, suppliers, interior decorator and even the agency that is handling your media and marketing work. You never know who amongst them or their friends might be suitable for a job at your company.

·         Buy jobs online- For a small fee that you can very well treat as an investment, you can buy jobs online. Register with a reputed jobs website and post job openings. Also purchase cost effective packages and get a chance to browse through thousands of resumes of qualified candidates.

·        Advertise- Newspaper adverts although conventional are highly effective for recruiting.  Advertising in newspapers is an age old tried and tested and classic technique when it comes to hiring. The typical candidate looking for a job will definitely look through the classifieds section of a daily newspaper when hunting for a job and will thus most likely show up for your interview if the profile interests him.

·        Visit Universities- To hire fresh graduates and fresh talent that are likely to graduate soon. You will be able to come across multiple qualified people wanting a job soon after they graduate.  Since they are fresher’s, they will also expect a lower salary which is perfect for you, considering yours is a start up and costs will be a huge issue initially.

Essentially remember to tap all possible job search avenues as the more pool of resumes you have, the more likely you are to be able to find suitable staff.

Recruiting Sales Staff in Philadelphia

The city of Philadelphia located in Pennsylvania is known for a variety of things, spanning from its popular tourist attraction- the Liberty Bell, its famous cheesecake dessert popularly called the ‘Baked Philly Cheesecake’ to its great variety of outdoor sculptures and murals.

Philadelphia is most renowned though for its relatively tax free shopping. It has an array of shopping malls and retail outlets and is in fact home to the largest mall in the U.S East coast.

With so many malls and shopping outlets, efficient sales staff are an important requisite and yet mostly difficult to find. Competent sales executives are almost solely responsible for a majority of the stores sales and thus in great demand too. Hence if you are on the lookout for sales staff for your retail outlet or company, recruiting, hiring and maintaining them must be done with great care and time spent.

Best ways to recruit proficient sales staff:

·  A quick resume search on leading job portals will throw up a great pool of resumes of both fresh sales graduates and experienced sales staff that are looking for jobs or looking to switch jobs and are available to hire.

·  Contract with a reputed recruiting agency and discuss your exact requirement with them. They have extensive resume databases that span all types of prospective candidates’ right from fresh applicants to experienced ones. They have multiple resume database software to create and maintain an updated mix of all relevant resumes and can for a small fee provide you with a number of suitable candidates that will fit your requirement.

·  Advertise with local newspapers and local trade magazines. Also place advertisements on non job specific websites. You could get a great response if your position is for a local job.

·  One of the most cost effective ways of finding sales staff is through networking. Ask colleagues and staff members to make recommendations of people they know who would be interested in sales. Also introduce a reward or incentive programme where they are rewarded for every candidate that is recommended by them and hired successfully in the company.

Also, network by attending events, conferences and job fairs where you are bound to meet likeminded people who can help you find appropriate sales staff.