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When you do identify your top candidates using an online job agency - Check out the experts tab - there's an article called: Be Sure Whom You Hire. It has a lot of great interviewing tips.

Another idea - have you tried Craig's list?

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The service handles all the Federal filing, withholding, and tax payments electronically. Depending on the state where you're doing payroll they'll either handle all that electronically or provide you with completed forms that you'll have to print and file manually.

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I am a recruiter and I use Monster and Careerbuilder almost daily. Not placing ads, but doing resume searches. For hiring one or two employees, the big job boards are just not cost effective, in my opinion. For a recruiter like me, they're worth it because I'm looking to fill hundreds of positions for clients.

I can also tell you from experience, at least in my area of expertise (engineering), you may pay hundreds of dollars on ads on Monster, HotJobs, Careerbuilder, etc. and not get any qualified candidates at all. It could be money down the tubes. Before spending big bucks, try craigslist and local newspaper ads. You may also want to get a recruiter involved. We don't charge you anything unless we find someone that you hire.

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Personally, i tend to agree with the perspective of the "big" online agencies not being cost effective. At the same time they tend to appeal to the unrealistic views of their clients like say having "1000" candidates apply to your position vs say "100" applying to your position is somehow better. This is what people tend to believe that "bigger" is better. In most cases though it is the quality of a given set of candidates that makes the difference. With that being said smaller companies tend to do a better job at quality...like say "you" for example...a small business owner.

Now back to the agencies. I have used the big boards www.monster.com and www.careerbuilder.com. Personally, Monster performed better for me; Careerbuilder is more like "ad builder" with all the advertisements and few quality candidates. I also have used www.workmetro.com and www.employrium.com both of which are smaller in size and circulation but much more cost effective for small business. With employrium i know they were running a no strings attached 30 day posting. Check it out. The moral to the story. If you buy into the "bigger is better" train of thought don't be upset if you get taken for a ride. For most of us, quality outweighs quantity any day.

This thread was started in 2007. I am surprised someone dug this question up.

Congrats on wanting to hire a person. That is a good sign.

If you are looking to hire an employee, try to hire on a referral. Ask your friends, past co-workers, relatives and family if they know someone who fit your bill. For the first employee, I would recommend against using an online job agency because you have little margin for error because your subsequent employees would look at the first to figure out if they want to join your company; your customers will experience a reduction in quality if the first employee does not work out well.

Second, I would suggest using LinkedIn (linkedin.com). As Endeavour suggested, LinkedIn is a good option if you would like to hire 'proven' candidates and minimize chances of hiring a fraudster. However, you can't minimize the chances of hiring a wrong candidate. For you to hire the right person, a detailed one-on-one with possibly multiple rounds of interviews and reference checks, with your own clarity of thinking on who the right candidate is, will help.

I had written "Small business secrets to Hiring" which could be of use to you. Small Business Secrets to Hiring

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