{"id":517,"date":"2012-09-14T12:11:02","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T16:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/articles.pcrecruiter.net\/?p=517"},"modified":"2025-09-23T15:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T19:10:09","slug":"great-recruiting-rules-for-small-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcrecruiter.net\/site\/2012\/09\/14\/great-recruiting-rules-for-small-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Recruiting Rules for Small Businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"

How does your small business recruit? Recruiting can be filled with endless requirements that can eliminate some of the dynamic potential of the process.<\/p>\n

Taking a look at advice from Johnny Laurent, vice president and general manager for the Sage Employer Solutions business unit, there are \u201csix rules of wise recruiting\u201d that can help small businesses manage such an important process:<\/p>\n

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  1. Look back to go forward<\/strong>: Take a look at how your business used to hire talent<\/a>. What did and didn\u2019t work? These lessons can help you learn from the past, improve what\u2019s broken, and move away from what needs to be forgotten.<\/li>\n
  2. Hire for attitude, train for skills<\/strong>: Laurent advises businesses to observe the dynamic potential of an interested employee. After all, you can always train an employee on the changes in software, but their attitude toward work probably won\u2019t be so amenable.<\/li>\n
  3. Past performance does predict future behavior<\/strong>: Take a deep look at the prospect\u2019s background and remember that \u201cunclear answers from former employers shouldn\u2019t be accepted.\u201d Laurent also advises you to ask what the person was like in a particular situation.<\/li>\n
  4. Become the employer of choice<\/strong>: The \u201cnumber one recruiting strategy,\u201d according to Laurent \u2013 is a goal that your business should strive to be recognized for in recruitment. When resumes start coming to you, Laurent says, you know you\u2019re on the right track.<\/li>\n
  5. Put them in the book \u2013 it\u2019s important to keep a reference guide<\/strong>: Pay attention to who\u2019s in your business right now. Keep tabs on your current employees and the directions they\u2019re moving. You can keep tabs on your own organization as well as others.<\/li>\n
  6. Hire hard, manage easy<\/strong>: Laurent uses this quote from Alan Davis, chairman and co-founder of Alan Davis Strategic Recruiting. If the right amount of energy is put into CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE<\/a>, the rest \u201cis a breeze,\u201d in Laurent\u2019s words.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Take these tips from Laurent and use them in your own recruitment process. Blending dynamic potential and conventional wisdom, the advice merges the best of both worlds for organizational success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[59,85,57,86],"class_list":["post-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry","tag-employment","tag-johnny-laurent","tag-recruiting","tag-recruiting-rules"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\r\nGreat Recruiting Rules for Small Businesses - PCRecruiter<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcrecruiter.net\/site\/2012\/09\/14\/great-recruiting-rules-for-small-businesses\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Great Recruiting Rules for Small Businesses - 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