If you are in a position in your business when you need to take on more staff then unfortunately you will have to go through the recruitment process which can take up a lot of time and cost a lot of money.  

Usually, the process for acquiring new staff follows a general pattern. The initial stage is to advertise the job, this may be done through an agency, on a jobs board, in local papers or on your own website or a combination of all of them. Once you have advertised the job you will need to start looking through applications or CV’s to create a shortlist of people that you think maybe well suited. You may flow this up with a quick phone interview just to get a brief overview of the person or to clear up any queries on their CV.

You may then wish to invite a number of people in for a formal interview. This is where you can really start to understand what skills and experience the person has and get to know a little bit more about their personality.  Carrying out an interview can be as nervous as attending one, but planning it out in advance is key. Make sure you have a set of generic questions you will ask all candidates and then highlight parts of their application or CV that you want to discuss in more detail.