Recruiting for a small business - lessons learned, part 2: Tips for job seekers

Fri, 20 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000

I previously wrote about takeaways from our first recruitment process as a recruiter in January 2021. This time I’m looking back to the recruitment process in order to gather tips for the other half, job applicants and seekers. Part of the advice are also based on my own experiences as a job seeker and some even on common sense. A recruiter of a bigger company could formulate this article a bit differently but these aspects mattered to us, as a small business.

Recruiting for a small business - lessons learned, part 1: Tips for recruiters

Thu, 04 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Throw a job ad on a recruitment portal, wait for applications, hold a couple of interviews and that’s it, right? This is what recruiting can look like from the outside but there’s quite a bit more to it. A recruitment campaign can be a massive effort especially for small businesses. In addition, if you’re doing it for the first time, you may want some advice.

We’re a small company (with 3 more or less part-time employees) who recently ran our first official recruitment campaign so we know what we’re talking about! We hope that sharing our experiences will help other small businesses and organizations to get the most out of a recruitment campaign without losing too much time and money and building a good employer brand at the same time.

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Recruiting for a small business - lessons learned, part 2: Tips for job seekers

Recruiting for a small business - lessons learned, part 1: Tips for recruiters