Strategic Recruiting

Recruiting qualified employees & volunteers can sometimes feel like hitting the jackpot.

Try planning your recruitment process to leverage available resources. Use tools such as creating a hiring strategy, and asking yourself specific questions to improve the intentionality of your recruiting. With the help of strategic recruiting, you can take the "luck" out of recruiting qualified candidates.

Create a hiring strategy!

If you find yourself struggling on how to implement recruiting strategies try the following strategies.

Step 1: Conduct a Needs Assessment

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Pin point what your exact staffing needs are

Try asking yourself:

What do I really need in a new employee?

What are the most important skills for a new employee to have?

What skills am I able to compromise on?

Then use that feedback to direct your recruitment process

To learn more about recruiting for employees and volunteers download the following pamphlets to learn more!

Recruiting Employees Pamphlet

This downloadable pamphlet gives you step-by-step tips for how to successfully recruit employees in your nonprofit organization!

Recruiting Employees.pdf

Recruiting Volunteers Resource

This downloadable pamphlet gives you tips and tricks on successfully recruiting and maintaining volunteers for your organization.

Leveraging Your Resources with an Intern

A student intern can be a great asset to nonprofit organizations. Organizations can gain potential new employees, assistance in short-term and long-term needs, and reduce potential recruiting and training costs through potential retention of the intern.

For more information on benefits of having a student intern scroll along to learn how to start the process!


Student interns and organizations both gain knowledge and resources when participating in internship programs. In partnership with UWL, La Crosse area organizations are able to tap into the great potential that students have. Internship programs support the university and surrounding community and increase's an organizations visibility and mission on campus.


This pamphlet from the UWL Career Center will guide your nonprofit through the process!


Questions?

UW-La Crosse Academic Advising Center & Career Services

Karen Durnin, Internship Coordinator

kdurnin@uwlax.edu | 608.785.8570

www.uwlax.edu/aaccs

Considerations for Hiring an Intern - Updated.pdf

Considering an Intern for your organization?

The content bellow shows the few easy steps it takes to create an internship partnered with UW- La Crosse students

Step 1: Determine Need in Your Organization and Gain Support

  • Which department? Who will supervise?

  • Decide compensation for the intern


Step 2: Create a Job Description

  • Brief organization description and position title

  • Skills and qualifications required or preferred

  • Duties and responsibilities, as well as information about potential projects

  • Hours per week and expected work schedule

  • Start/end dates of the internship

  • Application instructions, selection process, and deadlines


Step 3: Post in Handshake

  • All UW-La Crosse students have access to Handshake, our online jobs, internships and events system: uwlax.joinhandshake.com

  • Signing up is easy and takes less than 5 minutes.

  • Once signed up, you’ll be able to post jobs and internships from your dashboard.


**For more information please download the pdf by UWL above

Additional Resources

For more information about additional tools for strategic recruitment, see the links and other resources below!

Sources

  • Alter, S. (2015). Recruitment & Staffing. Journal of Property Management, 80(3), 42–47.
  • “Avoid Common Hiring Mistakes to Ensure Recruitment Success.” Nonprofit Business Advisor, vol. 2015, no. 311, 2015, pp. 6–8., doi:10.1002/nba.30097.
  • Birasnav, M., Goel, A., & Rastogi, R. (2012). Leadership behaviors, Organizational Culture, and Knowledge Management Practices: an Empirical Investigation. Amity Global Business Review, 7, 7–13.
  • Elkin, L. (1993). The power of vision in creating a new business management culture. Armed Forces Comptroller, 38(4), 9.
  • Kontoghiorghes, C. (2016). Linking high performance organizational culture and talent management: satisfaction/motivation and organizational commitment as mediators. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 27(16), 1833–1853. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2015.1075572
  • Lee, Y., & Brudney, J. L. (2012). Participation in formal and informal volunteering: Implications for volunteer recruitment. Nonprofit Management & Leadership, 23(2), 159–180. https://doi.org/10.1002/nml.21060
  • Mitchell, M. A., & Yates, D. (2002, March). How to Use Your Organizational Culture as a Competitive Tool. Nonprofit World, pp. 33-34.
  • Schweyer, L. K. (2018, April). Inside Out: A Fresh Perspective on Finding Volunteers. Nonprofit World, pp. 14-15.
  • SHRM. (2020, February). Understanding and Developing Organizational Culture. Society for HumanResource Management.
  • Sparks, D.M., & George, W. R. (1984, March). Marketing for Volunteer Service Organizations: A Case Study. Nonprofit World Report, pp. 24-34.