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By Ruby Newell-Legner, CSP
These tips are suggestions from Ruby's "How to Select Great Employees" Training Program, which is available on audiotape cassette with a downloadable workbook.
To order the tape set, visit http://www.rubyspeaks.com/letter/supervisor_skills.asp.
This program can also be presented as a customized training session for your organization. To learn more about Ruby's programs visit http://www.rubyspeaks.com/programdesc.asp.
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Colleges, universities, junior colleges, community colleges |
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Bulletin boards |
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Financial aid office |
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Job service office |
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Send flyers to professors and ask that they pass them on to students |
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Internet Job listings - Monster.com |
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Put an offer on your web site and provide a form to complete and e-mail back to you |
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Post information on a recruitment web site |
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Post information in a virtual job fair |
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Malls - place an ad in the notebooks advertising positions |
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Libraries - post want ads on community bulletin boards |
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Churches - place ads in church bulletins or on bulletin boards |
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Recreation Centers, Day Care centers Senior Centers - Place an ad in their newsletters or post on their bulletin boards |
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Run a contest with current employees offering a reward for a new employee who stays 60 days. |
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Offer a prize to a family member of a current employee who recommends a new employee who stays 60 days. |
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Request that anyone who is leaving find his or her own replacement! |
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Run a radio spot on a local radio station. |
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Rent an ad in your local movie theatre to show before the movie starts. |
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Offer a scholarship of any kind. Include job opportunities on the application form. |
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Hang out in the Business section at a local bookstore and talk to anyone picking up a book on job interviews. |
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Include an announcement about any openings on your voice mail message. |
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Make your flyers that you post on bright, multi-colored paper from Paper Direct. It will make your ad stand out on a bulletin board filled with one-color ads. |
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Send information to local teachers' unions and school districts for summer help. |
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Ask applicants who are being interviewed for the names of 2 or 3 other people who might be interested in positions. |
To schedule training or to see when Ruby will be presenting in your area, visit www.RubySpeaks.comor call Ruby's office in Littleton, Colorado at 303-933-9291
Ruby Newell-Legner, Certified Speaking Professional, is considered the pre-eminent Customer Satisfaction Expert in the Leisure Industry today. For over two decades Ruby has been helping organizations make exceptional customer service a way of life.
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