AllBusiness.com Launches New Guide to Recruiting Online For Small and Mid-Size Business Owners

"Recruiting through online want ads and job boards has grown dramatically in recent years, to the point where they threaten the economic viability of the traditional urban print newspaper businesses whose revenues from print want ads have shrunken drastically," says Maze. "Our SMB readers want to know how to make best use of this new strategy for hiring workers. How does it work? How much does it cost, especially compared to print want ads? What do you do when you get no responses? Or when you get flooded with responses?"

In researching for this report, Maze found little information on techniques for making the most of online recruiting efforts, or guidance for small and mid-size businesses who have limited HR resources to research the opportunity. "We realized that even though a third of our SMB readers are doing their recruiting through online sites or a mixture of online and print, they were doing it blind," says Maze. "This was our opportunity to do the research and pull together a complete guide to the online recruiting market along with tips and techniques for making the most of its capabilities."

"The Scoop on Online Recruiting for Business" provides a thumbnail sketch of the major resources available online for businesses looking for quality employees: regional ad sites like Craigslist, free as well as paid job boards like Monster.com, CareerBuilder.com, and Yahoo! HotJobs, as well as the online want ads offered by local print newspapers. The guide also describes how to use resume database sites, vertical-market and niche job resources such as IT site Dice, Mediabistro, and the university recruitment site JobCentral. It even comments on using community sites such as LinkedIn as long term recruitment resources, as well as going online to find recruiters and headhunters.

The guide contains comments and suggestions from authoritative SMB owners including:

--Step-by-step guides to writing your first online employment ad

--How to fine tune your ad to get better results

--Pitfalls of online recruiting

--Tips on how to screen applicants, how to avoid the most common failures of small-business job interviewing, and how to figure out market rates so you can make competitive salary offers.

The Buying guides already launched by AllBusiness.com include guides to buying business Desktop Computers, shopping for Payroll Services and Software, the scoop on Cash-Flow Management Tools, as well as the latest insights on Search Engine Marketing (SEM) and Keyword Buying.

AllBusiness.com also has a comprehensive set of Practical Business Guides, covering such topics as Starting a Business, Incorporating a Business, Office Leases, Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure Agreements, Venture Capital Financings, and Strategic Alliances and Joint Ventures.

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