If your company is on the cutting edge of a new business solution, you may want to consider adding talent before they've been working too long for someone else. Inexperienced, entry level job candidates, provide a clean slate that a savvy employer can mold into the perfect employee over time.
Fresh graduate jobs that don't demand a lot of experience can be set up as low-cost internship opportunities to help a company screen future job candidates on-the-job.
Leverage Inexperience to Your Advantage
New grad job postings that require significant experience will naturally demand higher salaries. However, if a job can be split apart into tasks that don't require know-how and those that do, you can easily wedge in an intern or someone without experience to help you get the same tasks done at a fraction of the cost. Plus, it can be a way for you to mentor new talent into positions with greater responsibilities later on.
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Get the Right Fit First
Instead of paying for experience, you pay to find the candidate with the right personality to fit into your company culture. You get to train them exactly how you want them to work and they can learn about the business from the ground up. This will make them more and more valuable to you and when you have an opening that needs to be filled that requires more experience, it can be done so from within the company with a perfect match. By matching the goals and personality first, you have a better chance of retaining people longer, simply because they like the organization and it feels like home.
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Question: How have you leveraged inexperienced employees?
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