The Best people are not always looking

Finding the best possible people for your company is a challenge and an opportunity. Keeping them, once you find them, is easy if you do the right things right. These specific actions will help you with recruiting and retaining all the talent you need.

Make sure you select from the largest pool when recruiting
Companies that select new employees from the candidates who walk in their door or answer an advertisement in the paper or online are missing the best candidates. They're usually working for someone else and they may not even be looking for a new position.

Remember The Best People are Not Always Looking.

A headhunter who will research the market and identify the best candidates can save you thousands

Experience
Past behaviour and success is one of the best predictors of future success

You must recruit the candidate whom you believe can hit the ground running in your company. You can't always afford the time for an candidate to “learn the ropes”

Consider internal candidates
Providing promotional and lateral opportunities for current employees positively boosts morale and makes your current staff members feel their talents, capabilities, and accomplishments are appreciated. Give potential candidates an interview. It's a chance for you to know them better. They learn more about the goals and needs of the organisation. Sometimes, a good fit is found between your needs and theirs.

Be Known as an Employer of Choice

Examine your employee practices for retention, motivation, accountability, reward, recognition, flexibility in work-life balance, promotion, and involvement. These are your key areas for becoming an employer of choice. You want your employees spreading the word that your organisation is the  place to work. People will believe the employees before they believe the corporate literature and spin.

Pay Better Than The Rest
Yes, you do get what you pay for in the job market. Survey your local job market and take a hard look at the compensation people in your industry attract. You want to pay better than average to attract and keep the best candidates.

Use Your Benefits to Your Advantage In Recruiting Employees
Keep your benefits above industry standard and add new benefits as you can afford them. You also need to educate employees about the cost and value of their benefits so they appreciate how well you are looking out for their needs.
Treasured currently by employees is flexibility and the opportunity to balance work with other life responsibilities, interests, and issues. You can't be an employer of choice without a good benefits package that includes standard benefits such as medical insurance, pension etc
bonuses that pay the employee for measurable achievements and contributions.

Recruit the Cleverest Person You Can Find
Hire for strengths; don't expect to develop weak areas of performance, habits, and talents. Build on what is great about your new employee in the first place.

Use Your Web Site for Recruiting
Your Web site portrays your vision, mission, values, goals, and products. It is also effective for recruiting employees who experience a resonance with what you state on your site. A job seeker will always visit your site before the interview.