1. Begin internship or apprenticeship programs for high school or college students
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  3. Hire part-time workers for jobs where you have previously only hired full-timers
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  5. Begin or increase usage of job postings on the Internet, now used by more than 75% of companies
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  7. Interview applicants who may lack traditional qualifications, such as degrees or years of experience, but have the right abilities and can be trained (e.g., career, changers, homemakers, and ex-military)
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  9. Begin an employee-referral-and-reward program
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  11. Host an open house and plant/office tour
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  13. Recruit from among clients, customers, and suppliers
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  15. Set up your own training center and pick from among the best graduates
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  17. List open positions with outplacement firms where you can hire talented individuals from a variety of fields and functions without paying a fee
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  19. Hire and train entry-level workers through the federal "Welfare-to-Work" program
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  21. Hold on-site job/career fairs. Provide childcare during interviews if possible
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  23. Let it be known in your help wanted ads that you value older workers
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  25. Recruit entry-level service workers, stop in at community centers, introduce yourself and say,"I'm looking for workers"
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  27. Create a first-name relationship with state welfare and job service officials so they will remember to refer candidates to you
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  29. Create a public-private partnership with local transit officials to subsidize a bus that will pick up workers where they live and bring them across town to your work site
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  31. Ask new hires which people they would recruit from their former companies and colleges, because talented people tend to recognize other talented people
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  33. Stay in touch with talented people who leave, and use them as sources for new talent leads
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  35. Invite prospective employees to chat by phone or by e-mail with current satisfied workers to find out what they like about working in your company
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  37. Consider recruiting from other countries through the H1B visa program
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  39. Consider relaxing company policies that forbid hiring relatives, and ask employees to refer them for jobs in other departments
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  41. Network, Network, Network; use sites like LinkedIn, Face Book and Myspace and local clubs like Chamber of Commerce, or Lions Club to tell people about your open positions