The Scoop on Online Recruiting

This Buyer’s Guide will give you an overview of the resources on the Web that can make your recruiting faster, easier, and possibly cheaper, along with some tips on planning and managing the recruiting process.

By Ghislaine Maze
Associate Editor, Buyer's Guides

You want to hire the best people, quickly. How can you most effectively use the new online recruiting tools — online classifieds, job boards, resume services?

The classic ways to recruit are still good: Classified ads in regional or national newspapers as well as trade publications and employee referrals; even a sign in your restaurant window can still work well.

But the Internet is the main recruiting resource for the more and more businesses, and it does offer some powerful advantages for many kinds of recruitment.

This Buyer's Guide will give you an overview of key considerations in your recruitment process and point you to some tools that can be helpful. Find out about different ways you can recruit people, with a breakdown of the cost of the different options for advertising your job, searching resume databases, and using recruiters and agencies to help you find the people you need.