Hiring the right people for the job is what Human Resources departments are all about. It is what we do.

However, hiring is about more than just putting out an ad and giving the job to the first person willing to work. Choosing the right people for the job is absolutely critical. A good HR manager will not only try to hire a person with the required working skills. No, they also have to hire a person that is completely “right” for the job. And by “right” I mean a person that fully fits into the mission and vision of the company and represents the company values.

This is essential for the well-being and success of any business. Especially a corporate-type situation where you have multiple departments and hundreds of employees.

In this Hiring series, we will provide you with a mini guide to hiring the right people for your company.

So, let’s begin.

Channels

This is the first step to hiring new talent. You have to get your message out there.

There are multiple channels through which you could find potential employees. You have the old HR classics, such as Craigslist, Glassdoor, ZipRecruiter, Monster Jobs etc.

These sites are classics for a reason – they simply work.

There are tens of thousands of potential employees on these sites every day, looking for a job. You have to use this as a hiring channel. You will lose out if you don’t.

Aside from these channels, you can also use Linkedin or even Instagram to find new employees. Linkedin is great because it is a big social networking site used by mostly highly professional people. This network is full of job listings and referrals from every imaginable industry. Applicants can apply for your job with a single click. This network is currently booming in popularity among professionals.

Job postings

This is probably the most important step in the process of finding willing applicants. And that is crafting the right job posting. A job posting has the potential to either make an indifferent observer become interested in your message, or get uninterested and stop reading.

There are a few pointers we can give you when it comes to crafting job postings.

First of all, be very clear in your communication. You don’t want there to be any possible misunderstandings. Don’t try to be clever or funny either, be honest. Tell them about your expectations for the role, what their responsibilities would be, what kind of job they would be doing and the compensation they would be getting. You want to put it all out there, as honest as possible, and then take the applicants to the next level of the hiring process (which we will cover in the second article).

Also, you want to be concise in your communication. Don’t waste 500 words on something you could have said in 20. Just get the message out there.

If you need some inspiration for the job postings, go on one of these sites that we recommended and start scrolling. You will very soon notice which job postings are eye-catching and which ones you just scroll past. Take notice of that.

After you made your job posting and placed it on these sites, applications will soon start rolling in. Next thing that you should do is take them to the next step in the hiring process, which will be filtering out the applicants which you do not want and inviting the promising ones to an interview.

We cover all of that, plus how to set up the interview, what questions to ask, how to make your decision etc., in our second article, Hiring Guide – Part 2.