Best place to look for serious job candidates?

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Best place to look for serious job candidates?

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XM Radio?

Sorry, I forgot I was on the Money Board.

What general industry?

Trade journals or industry groups?

Word of mouth is always a thing in a BR or NOLA.

In my experience, for basic office staff (receptionist, basic bookkeeping, low-level CSR, etc) Indeed and Zip Recruiter are good enough and relatively cheap. For somewhat more specialized stuff (ops, BI, IT, etc), Linkedin works. For really specialized/high-level positions, it's all networking. Think of it as positions that don't need degrees/certs, positions that need degrees/certs, and positions that need everything.

For reference, I'm in both construction and manufacturing. YMMV depending on industry.

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Best place to look for serious job candidates?

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Work your alternatives!!

It depends on the job.

Obviously, advertise on free sites.

But, for example, years back we were searching for a MD. We created a fax, which was a job ad. I had our secretary forward it to every residency office in the country.

Cost? Nothing.

Then I identified every HPSP speciality location. Faxed the same form.

Cost? Nothing.

We got 210 applications for our one position.

Narrowed that to the best 25. They interviewed on their dime. Subsequently, we brought 5 of those back for a wine and dine. Eventually we made our choice from those 5 (those 5 were our only real cost).

Personally I'd post something on LinkedIn with a solid description of the work and the benefits, then trawl through the people jumping on it and start to evaluate how they write and present themselves.

Your network will start tagging in trusted peers who think they will be a good fit, vouch for, and are interested. Should give you a good pool.

What would this certain field be?

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I wouldn't consider interviewing for any MD job that made me pay my own travel.

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Interesting. So in this instance, you'd simply be working somewhere else. Regardless of your personal interview preferences though, the effort here was to illustrate there are sometimes productive outside the box solutions to identifying/attracting high quality candidates.