New Hiring Best Practices for the Channel

Build Strong Talent Networks and Leverage Employee Referrals

Your current employees should be your greatest advocates and will have their own networks that you can tap into. Build a referral program if you don’t already have one.

Hearing people refer to hiring a great candidate as simply being in the right place at the right time implies lack of control. Don’t wait until you need to fill a role, and things will feel less up to chance. Build a pipeline of potential candidates for what you’ll need in the next few years. Go out of your way to look for more diverse employees. Remember that technical skills can be taught—focus on soft skills and attitude.

Understand WFH Is Here to Stay

Flexibility is key, now more than ever. Offering remote or hybrid options to all employees is in your business’s best interest. Remote work is projected to rise to 300% of pre-COVID levels, making it another nice-to-have that’s transformed into a must-have if you want to attract top talent to you organization.

Fill Talent Gaps by Outsourcing through a Partner

Implementing these best practices can understandably take time. But many MSPs need these positions backfilled as of yesterday. So while you work on that, teaming up with a with a partner that can offer outsourced tech support, expert pre-sales guidance, on-call solution architects and resources to help your business grow can make a big difference.

The success of your company isn’t up to you alone. Attracting and developing talent that will ensure your organization’s continued success, however, is indeed up to you. Putting policies and procedures in place to realize talent acquisition can help take chance and luck out of the equation. In the meantime, a value-added cloud solutions partner like Sherweb can help you grow by acting as an extension of your team while you assemble a super squad of your own.

Michael Slater is Head of Sales, Channel Marketplace, at Sherweb. Michael watches over Sherweb’s dynamic cloud marketplace. His main objectives include advancing Sherweb’s lineup of cloud solutions, developing the sales team’s overall technical strategy and delivering the right products for channel partners. With previous roles in support, SMB sales and enterprise technical sales, his experience includes liaising with thousands of channel partners in North and South America. When he’s not immersed in expanding Sherweb’s channel footprint, Michael is a fan of video games, fine scotch and combat sports.

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