Hiring the Best People

Nearly every successful business owner points to great employees providing the foundation for success. As a business owner, you have the right ideas and the drive, but you cannot do it alone. You need talented people to support you.

Hiring the right candidates can be time consuming and tedious, but your company could fail to flourish without the right talent. Indeed can help you find those people, and now you have the information you need to close the deal with the right candidates. This may feel like a lot of pressure, but don’t worry. BBB, in partnership with Indeed, is here to help with a few tips to guide you through the hiring process every step of the way. For more tips, head to BBB.org and visit indeed.com/partner/bbb for more information or to utilize your credit.

Managing candidates. When you publish a job posting, some applicants will be more qualified than others. When time is precious, you want to be sure you’re focused on the task at hand. Indeed’s candidate management tools can help. Say goodbye to emails with individual resumes clogging up your inbox. With Indeed, you’ll have a dashboard that manages the entire process.

Searching for the right fit. Looking through resumes and selecting candidates to interview can be a challenging task. Evaluating varying backgrounds and skillsets can make choosing the appropriate person overwhelming. Here are a few things to consider when sifting through resumes.

• Evaluate work experience. If work experience is critical to the job, you’ll want to evaluate an applicant’s work background. Depending on the role you are hiring for, you may or may not be able to dedicate a lot of time toward mentoring a new employee. Decide the amount of time and effort you can spend with a new employee and choose the experience level accordingly.

• Looking for soft skills. Soft skills include things like critical thinking, communication and problem solving. Not all soft skills will be apparent when reviewing a resume. However, Indeed has advice on identifying soft skills and ways to evaluate whether a candidate has the ones you desire.

• Don’t overlook outside industry experience. As important as it may be to have relevant experience for the available job, candidates may possess transferable skills to help them in the position you are trying to fill. Don’t overlook past jobs because they’re in different industries; you may be pleasantly surprised to find that a diverse background can help rather than hinder.

Effective interviewing. When you meet a candidate, they are interviewing you as much as you’re interviewing them. For businesses that don’t have an HR department and don’t conduct many interviews, the process can feel a bit haphazard to applicants. It is crucial to make the right impression, so the interview ends with them wanting to work for you. By utilizing these interviewing tips from Indeed, you can make the most of your valuable time.

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