{"id":2719,"date":"2011-08-17T22:56:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T22:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/hr-advice\/recruitment-strategies-try-recruiting-non-traditional-employees\/"},"modified":"2024-05-09T20:03:47","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T03:03:47","slug":"recruitment-strategies-try-recruiting-non-traditional-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/blog\/recruitment-strategies-try-recruiting-non-traditional-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Recruitment strategies: try recruiting non-traditional employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-4332 alignleft\" style=\"vertical-align: baseline;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/recruitment_strategies_-_non_traditional_employees.jpg\" alt=\"recruitment_strategies_-_non_traditional_employees\" width=\"241\" height=\"160\" \/> <\/strong>Recruitment strategies become vital in a tight job market. Many companies succeed with recruitment strategies that include hiring non-traditional candidates.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1-800-Flowers meets peak period demands by hiring teachers and retirees on a seasonal basis.<\/li>\n<li>IBM turned to the National Technical Institute for the Deaf to find precision machinists. IBM also runs a recruitment program designed to recruit employees with disabilities.<\/li>\n<li>Concentra, a manage healthcare company, actively recruits the spouses of military personnel.<\/li>\n<li>Trade unions turn to National Association of Women in Construction to help them cope with the skilled labour shortage<\/li>\n<li>Alpine Access sets itself apart from traditional call centres that hire young male workers. The company instead focuses on hiring stay-at-home parents and retirees.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"content_ad_right\"><\/div>\n<p>Sources for non-traditional employees include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Family, friends and contacts of your current employees<\/li>\n<li>People looking to immigrate &#8212; try global recruitment<\/li>\n<li>Recent immigrants<\/li>\n<li>Former employees<\/li>\n<li>Homemakers<\/li>\n<li>Stay-at-home moms and dads<\/li>\n<li>Students &#8212; high school, college and university<\/li>\n<li>Older workers &#8212; those in their 50s often struggle to find jobs after layoffs, in spite of their tremendous experience<\/li>\n<li>Retired workers and semi-retired workers<\/li>\n<li>Military employees and their family members<\/li>\n<li>People with disabilities<\/li>\n<li>Ethnic minorities<\/li>\n<li>Newcomers to your community<\/li>\n<li>Telecommuters<\/li>\n<li>Part-time workers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By looking beyond the traditional job market, your firm may be able to overcome the skilled labour shortage.<\/p>\n<p>Posts related to Recruitment strategies: try recruiting non-traditional employees<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/hr-advice\/category\/recruitment-and-retention\/\">Recruitment and retention<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/blog\/hiring-employees-seven-winning-strategies\/\">Hiring employees &#8211; seven winning strategies<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/blog\/hiring-what-not-to-do\/\">Hiring &#8211; what not to do<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recruitment strategies become vital in a tight job market. Many companies succeed by hiring non-traditional candidates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[162],"tags":[43,113,121],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2719"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9649,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2719\/revisions\/9649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}