How to Find Great Staff For Your Expanding Team

Finding and hiring the right people is one of the biggest challenges for any organization. Below, we’ll go over some common staffing options that work for many different roles and organizations.

1. Staffing Agencies

An established staffing agency is one of the best ways to find pre-vetted candidates for your open positions. After hiring tens of thousands of employees for clients like you, they likely have the expertise to quickly find quality employees based on your requirements. 

The right agency can also handle many parts of the hiring process beyond the initial candidate search. That reduces the amount of time you have to spend on those tasks while you’re understaffed.

2. Social Media

Many people look for jobs on social media. Professionals often turn to LinkedIn, although Facebook remains a popular choice for many job seekers with a wide range of skill sets.

Some social media sites make it easy to promote job ads to a targeted audience. For instance, Facebook lets you promote your job ad to people who live in a specific location, have a certain education level, or have specific interests (such as something related to the job you’re hiring for). 

3. Job Boards

You can reach a wide audience by listing your job opening on job boards — in many cases, too wide. Many organizations that post on job boards find themselves sorting through thousands of applications from unqualified candidates. However, you may find a great candidate somewhere in the mix.

4. Job Fairs

Many universities, high schools, trade organizations, and local government programs have job fairs where employers can interact with job seekers. Attending a job fair is a good way to meet candidates who are actively looking for work.

5. Referrals

Many successful organizations have referral programs that incentivize employees to refer people in their network to open positions. This system helps you find job seekers who are likely to work well with your existing employees.

6. Your Company Website

Your company website might not draw many job seekers on its own unless you’re part of a large organization with widespread name recognition and community respect. That said, it’s nearly always wise to post your open jobs there. 

Having a listing on your own site reassures job applicants that the listings they’ve found on other sites aren’t scams. It also encourages applicants to use your preferred format to apply.

The Next Steps: Assessing Candidates

Assessing the candidates who apply for your job postings is a huge topic, and you’ll find many conflicting opinions about how to do it in your industry. 

Broadly speaking, you will want to confirm that candidates have the technical skills they say they have, get a good sense of their soft skills, screen for potential problems, and figure out if they fit your company culture. During the interview, you can ask candidates how they’ve dealt with difficult situations that are likely to come up in the job in their past work, such as handling hard-to-please customers or unexpected last-minute problems with a project.

A staffing agency with experience in your industry is a great resource in candidate assessments. They will have seen which candidates worked out well for similar roles at other organizations, and they’ll likely be able to recommend assessment techniques. Some staffing agencies also do comprehensive screenings of all candidates they recommend.

Staffing FAQs

How do I find local staff?

With online job postings, you’ll often get job applicants from other states and even other countries. You can find local staff by working with a local staffing agency or advertising a job on a social media site that lets you target ads by location. Referral programs are also likely to bring you local candidates. Be sure to list the job location in your online listings.

How do I find good hourly employees?

Staffing agencies, referrals, online job listings, and ads targeted to local social media users are all good ways to find hourly employees. You can get better quality candidates by offering incentives such as schedule flexibility and competitive pay with solid benefits.

How do I find seasonal employees?

Finding candidates who are interested in seasonal work is often a numbers game, so working with a staffing agency that has a large network is a good strategy. You can also encourage referrals and re-engage past seasonal workers. Ask pre-screening questions to make sure applicants are available when you need them.

Get Help With Your Candidate Search

There are a lot of different ways to go about your candidate search, and the best option depends on the job. At LG Resources, we have experience finding quality staff for a wide variety of roles, including professional, skilled labor, and general labor positions. If you need help with hiring, we’ve got your back.

Our comprehensive screening processes help you find the best possible candidates. We aim to bring you successful outcomes, like the 40% production increase one of our clients experienced in the first week with staff from LG Resources. 

We’ve placed over 20,000 employees with over 2,000 business partners in the past decade. Request an employee or give us a call today to fill your staffing needs.