When companies begin to grow rapidly, they often need to recruit more people. Often small business owners can find it difficult to find the time to recruit, do background checks, and screen candidates. Entrepreneurs soon discover that recruiting efforts alone can quickly become a full-time job. One option to reduce the number of hours of your valuable time may be to hire an independent contractor or virtual assistant and teach him/her what you are looking for in new recruits.
Your assistant can develop and place effective employment advertisements in newspapers and online and spread the word about any new positions you need filled. Drafting and placing these employment advertisements can also be very time consuming, but your assistant will be able to do them quickly without too much of your own time or involvement.
With your initial training and with your specifications for the positions to be filled, your independent contractor or virtual assistant can identify new recruits for you, screen them - including reference and background checks, and then pass the promising candidates to you. Interviewing those who pass this initial comprehensive process when it has been completed can save you an enormous amount of time.
When you are looking at hiring more employees, consider outsourcing recruitment to an independent contractor or a virtual assistant to handle the bulk and brunt of the recruitment work. Your assistant can save you time, energy and even recruiting fees, so you can focus your resources on quality interviews and the more important business issues.
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