When it comes to filling business-critical vacancies, the bottom line is: that you need to find the right fit, aka the best person for the job. Sometimes, this means widening your geographical reach far beyond your front door. But oftentimes, there’s no place like home – and no talent like homegrown talent – to make the perfect match. When employers hire local, they are helping themselves as well as the community that they operate within.
Hire locally and you:
Demonstrate your company’s commitment to the community.
When you hire local talent, you invest in your local community. Candidates, employees, customers and others will see this and take greater pride in your association with them. This naturally leads to an enhanced employer and overall business brand.
Gain greater community insight.
By hiring locally, you gain greater insight into your customers, the challenges they face, and how your company can help. You also come to better understand your competition. And, local hires tend to be more invested in helping your business succeed, since your community is their community.
Support local development.
As you create local employment opportunities, you help reduce area unemployment. This contributes to your local economic and tax base and improves social cohesion. Hiring local workers also helps develop and retain local talent, contributing to a more skilled, competitive community workforce.
Control hiring costs.
A local hire helps minimize recruiting costs as relocation tends to be minimal. As an added bonus, several states including California offer tax credits to businesses that invest in their own communities. And as you hire locally, you are more likely to recruit employees who love their hometowns and thus are more likely to stay there, versus searching elsewhere in the future.
Facilitate easier onboarding.
Because they are already familiar with your geographic location, local hires often require less time to be introduced to their new environment. And if your company is well known locally, chances are they’re already familiar with your brand and possibly your mission, plans, and leadership team.
Benefit from already-established local connections.
In addition to knowing your community, many local hires already have a network of connections from which your company could benefit. These may include already established, warm links to potential sales leaders and business partnerships.
Enhance employees’ work/life balance.
Because they’re already settled into the community, local hires can often more easily segue into office activities and social events with peers. They also may have shorter commutes or at the least, are familiar with the most efficient ways to get to and from work. All this adds up to better work/life balance, easier peer relationships and ultimately, better engagement and job satisfaction.
No staffing firm supports community hiring like PrideStaff Fresno – winner of numerous local business accolades including the Best of Central Valley’s Best Employment service award, the Fresno Bee’s People’s Choice, and the Business Journal’s Best of Fresno accolade.
While our reach extends nationwide, we will always remain committed to and are deeply embedded right here in Fresno. Reach out to us today to learn more about how we can share our community commitment and grow your winning team.
