Title	Fifteen Tips for Creative Recruitment
ShortDescription	These tips offer low cost/no cost creative recruitment techniques that small businesses have found successful and easy to implement.
LongDescription	In a tight job market, small businesses are at a definite disadvantage. Often unable to offer the big benefits and top salaries of their larger competitors, and unwilling to spend substantial dollars on recruitment costs, small businesses find their applicant pools shrinking rapidly. What to do? There are a number of creative recruitment techniques that small businesses have found successful, from job fairs to employee referral bonuses to creative public relations, that are low cost/no cost and easy to implement. The fifteen tips include: (1) existing applicants, (2) your employees, (3) friends of friends, (4) general media, (5) job hotline, (6) internet, (7) trade and lifestyle publications, (8) schools, (9) job fairs, (10) open houses, (11) other employers, (12) word of mouth, (13) rejected applicants, (14) temporary services, and (15) your customers.
SourceAuthor	Grensing-Prophal, Lin
Reference	Greater Baton Rouge Society for Human Resource Management, Volume 20, Issue 8, Jan 2004, ppj4
Organization	Greater Baton Rouge Society for Human Resource Management (GBR-SHRM)
ContactAddress	PO Box 3891, Baton Route, Louisiana 70821-3891
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Website	http://www.gbrshrm.com/word/jan_2004.doc
Other	http://shrm.org/hrresources/whitepapers_published/CMS_000359.asp
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