Attracting talents to social enterprises

Today I will be sharing about an article that I read online about attracting talents to social enterprise.

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In this article, it gives us tips on how to attract and retain talents. Recruiting the right employee can be a troublesome process, where they are required to have the correct skills and the right attitude. This can be especially difficult, especially for social enterprises, which the article mentioned that it might hard to provide kind of programmes and benefits that other big corporate company do. (Jervis, 2012)

I feel that the article is a very useful one, for any potential social entrepreneurs. While we had already learn something similar from modules like Human Resource Management, i feel that this article gives us more useful tips that might be useful in recruiting workers in the future.

Below are examples of tips that the article provides.

Top three tips for hiring great social enterprise talent:

1. Involve your team in the decision: Have the individual shadow your organisation, meet your clients, beneficiaries and staff.

2. Invest and reward the right individual.

3. Think carefully about your organisations need to strike a balance between purpose motivations and business acumen.

Reference

Jervis, Joe. (2012,November 27). Top Tips: Attracting the best talents for your social enterprises. Retrieved 28 November 2012 from: http://socialenterprise.guardian.co.uk/en/articles/social-enterprise-network/2012/nov/27/top-tips-attracting-best-talent