It is always easier to recruit people for technical jobs or specific knowledge based jobs. But when it comes to hiring creative people it becomes a bit more difficult to find the right persons for the creative jobs your organization might require. This is because skills an knowledge can be measured more easily especially through interviews and aptitude tests. Creativity is more abstract and so most times you cannot easily formalize it.
To hire the right type of persons for the creative jobs in your organization you’ll have to consider several actions as listed below;

- Determine the Kind of Creativity You Need; Do you need an employee with the general ability to see and create new solutions or do you need an individual who is creative in a particular field eg Graphic designer. Answering this question will help narrow down your search for right employee.

- Advertise Your Job Vacancies Creatively: If you need creative people to join your organization then you must do creative things to attract them. Placing dull job vacancy ads in the papers will not get those type of creative people you need. Make your job ads more challenging and interesting. You can also find more unconventional places to place your job vacancy ads.

- Use Non-traditional Means for Recruiting: Creative people are mostly unconventional and will easily be more targeted and attracted if you use various creative media to send out information anout your job vacancy. Work your creative mind to come up with new ways of carrying out your employee recruitment. Use new media such as facebook, twitter etc to send out your message on vacancies. Place your job vacancies in high traffic career sites visited by thousands of creative and qualified jobseekers.

- The Job Interview: When interviewing applicants for a creative job position you have to ask the right questions from which answers you’ll best deduce the suitability of the candidate before you. Watch reactions as this tells you more about the candidate’s personality. Determine the level of enthusiasm as they answer questions. If you feel you need it get the help of professional recruiters to help you in your recruitment process but always be part of the process. In the 21st century the business of hiring people is now an important one. Your people will make or mar you.

Ask for Sample Idea or Work: One of the best ways to ensure you get the truly creative people to become your employees is to ask for a sample idea or work of theirs. Be sure to keep the scope within job sector concerned. If for example, you wish a most creative designer your job ad should indicate that you require each applicant to submit a sample of a design work done by him or her. This will give you a sneak view into the level of creativity each applicant has. If possible during the screening process you may devise a means of making them defend their samples or show that they did the work themselves.

Good post , any home grown advice if you want to hire people to online Lone i.e virtual office type of thing? Is Nigeria ready for that?










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Nigeria has some pretty good online job portals and vacancy listing blog. I've previously hired a Nigerian I've never seen and paid him 10k for a graphic job I needed for a new company, so it works and depends on whether u need to recruit for a long term job or a one time work.

y do employees believe productivity culd b compromised wen workin frm home??