5 Tips on Hiring Quality and Reliable People

Before you hire employees, examine your own skills. Hire to complement your skills, not duplicate them.

Assure yourself plenty of applicants by casting a broad net. Interview applicants in a structured way by asking all applicants for a job the same questions.

Draw applicants to your Web site by placing the Web address in all advertisements.

Use an 800 phone or fax number as a toll-free way for applicants to contact you.

Offer a signing bonus─anything from $25 to $2,500 could be an incentive to help bring on a fence-sitting applicant. This is a common practice for "super starts."