Hiring New Employees as a Small Business

Starting a small business is an exciting time, yet you might be thinking – how do I approach recruitment within a small business?

Once you have come to the conclusion that your small business is ready for more staff, you’ll need to take job adverts, salaries, ethics and onboarding processes into consideration, ensuring a smooth recruitment process for your business and its new employee.

Here are our top tips on hiring staff as a small business…

1. Create an Great Job Advert

With the job market continuously expanding, your job adverts can be the key to finding the perfect employee. Job adverts should include a job description, expectations, experience preferred and what you, as a business, have to offer – this is the perfect time to showcase what makes your small business special, and advertise your USPs as much as possible.

Creating a checklist of what you’d like within an employee and reflecting that upon the job advert could be useful, and always make sure to promote your job advert on as many platforms as possible including social media sites.

2. Offer Transparency on Budgets & Salaries

Salary transparency is very important in the current economy, with more potential employees refusing to apply for jobs unless they have salary expectations highlighted. There is nothing wrong with setting a flexible salary budget – it shows employees that you’re able to match salaries to their experience, however, do research similar roles and what the pay expectation may be.

Being clear about salaries and budgets will reduce any time-wasting, on your behalf as a business but also on the employee’s behalf – if you don’t have a large budget, it may be worth investing in a smaller but more effective team than trying to expand too quickly.

3. Appeal to a Wide Employee Pool

Being inclusive is an extremely attractive attribute of a small business, therefore, catering your job adverts and descriptions to fit a wide range of employees will be advantageous in the recruitment process. Of course, you don’t want to hire someone that’s not relevant to the job, however, keep an open mind when it comes to relevant experience and look out for transferrable skills.

For example, an individual may not have a specific degree but they have a history of working within a relevant company and are keen to learn – showing a broad skill set and ability to adapt.