DarthHazard
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I'm developing a website right now and although I have found staff for a few of the positions, I have noticed that it is much harder to find staff looking to volunteer. I have looked through a lot of recruitment threads on various webmaster forums and I'm just noticing that there are very little responses. Do you think that it is much more difficult to find voluntary staff for websites, blogs and forums now? I believe so and I think the main cause is that people are looking at ways to earn money through the Internet. Because of this, people are starting to only work for money or looking at starting their own site to make money out of it. What do you guys think?
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Well, it seems like the challenge is not being able to find the right staff, but finding staff who can volunteer. Now that is a major challenge especially if you are looking to hire among Generation X. This age group knows that can make money very quickly on social media with the right tools. They also tend to shy away from the normal tried and tested corporate route. These are a couple of things you can try to attract the right volunteer staff:
1. Package the offer as an internship, with possible employment if all goes well.
2. Develop a project that you can collorate on a partnership basis with this volunteer. Ensure they are listed as a contributor on this project. This way the volunteer's confidence is boosted and he can list you and the project as a CV reference.
3. Break the work schedule into chunks and outsource on Fiverr. You might not even need a physical staff after this :)
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TommyCarey
It really depends on where you are with your company or website. No one wants to work for free unless there's something at the end of the tunnel for them. Interns will work at a company willingly because there's always a chance at the end of their time they will be offered a job. Obviously this depends on how well they did their job when they weren't getting paid for it. Even if they don't get the job, they can add it to their resume which will show they've gained experience in a certain position, even if it's only an internship.
With websites it's much more difficult to get people to help you out for free. Usually the people, like you said above, are already online looking to make money so they won't sign up for a non paid position with your website. Now this would be different if your website or business was already making a ton of money and there was a chance that you could get a full time position, but there aren't many websites that do this because they have the entire world to pull from to fill their positions.
When it comes to blogs and forums, you will need to offer people incentives in order to help you out. Most forum moderators don't get paid, but they do get a load of perks when it comes to posting and receiving free stuff all the time lol. I know a few mods on one of the biggest marketing forums in the world and they say that they don't get paid at all, but they get whatever service they want for free usually because they are the ones who have to test the services prior to the public gaining access. And this isn't just a basic backlink campaign, some of these mods are saving $1,000's because of all the subscriptions they have active through big corporations wanting to advertise on the forum in the form of a sales thread
You can always hire VA's from the Philippines and pay them like $100 a month at the beginning and let them know that they are basically doing an internship. You can let them know that they will be your first choice for a full time position when it does open up, and they will be more willing to work with you because there's potential and they're putting some cash in their pockets
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