For your business to ever reach it’s true potential, you need a powerful workforce behind you- driving things forward and working efficiently. But finding the right people for your team can be tough, like everything in business competition is fierce. You’re not just competing against other businesses for customers, but for employees too. Here are some of the ways you can secure yourself excellent team members, and make your company a place where they’re happy to stay.

Recruit and Interview Carefully

The first stage of finding people to work for your business is to create an ad explaining the job vacancy. While you will want the role to sound appealing, be sure you’re not dressing it up to be something it’s not. Otherwise employees will be left disappointed and could even decide to leave after a short while meaning more money in advertising, interviewing and training. You could use talent acquisition technology to optimize the candidate experience, or outsource to a recruitment agency to tackle this side of things for you. During the interview process you will want to get to know your candidates as much as possible, find out their skills and ask for examples of them in practice. Don’t be afraid to conduct second or third interviews if you need to to ensure you’re choosing the right person.

Think About Employee Benefits

To interest the best candidates to your job vacancy in the first place, you need to be offering them something that they want. Once they’re interested in a job people will usually look at two things- the salary and the employee benefits. The salary should be competitive, usually it’s best to pay based on experience. Employee benefits will help to make your workers feel secure– dental, medical, disability and retirement plans are all options.

Create a Pleasant Place to Work

A nice environment to work from can help to boost mood and therefore productivity of your workers. Make the most of the natural light you have coming into your premises with the right window treatments, painting the walls in a light shade can also help to bounce it around. Provide nice desks and comfortable chairs to work from. Work on creating an environment that’s happy and positive, this means hiring friendly people who can work well as a team and having a zero tolerance policy on things like workplace bullying.

Consider Investing in Team Building Activities

Again, teamwork is crucial when you run a business and one thing you can do as a company owner is make sure everyone is working well together. As well as carefully choosing employees who have a track record of good teamwork, team building activities can be highly effective. These could be held in the office or you could book something with a company who offer fun things like escape rooms, treasure hunts, murder mystery evenings and more. Even taking staff out for the occasional meal paid for by the company is a nice treat and can get people chatting and socializing, which in turn can lead to better communication back in the office.

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