How to Hire More People Faster

When it comes to hiring in today’s labor market, what used to work 20 years ago simply won’t anymore… or at least it won’t work nearly as well as it once did. That’s because everyone has caught up and are all following the same industry-recommended best practices.

So what else is there? What can you do that your competitors aren’t doing to find the labor you need? Neal Glatt says that having an open hiring policy (i.e. hiring people based on their ability to work, not their past) can have profound results.

Here, he discusses what happened when The Body Shop implemented an open hiring policy in their stores, and speculates on why these communities of untapped labor can end up being a company's best workers.