Hiring Guide

Hiring Doesn’t Have To Be Hard

Hiring during a campaign can be tough. Campaigns are a race against time. If you are in the position of hiring it can feel like you needed someone yesterday.

But that doesn’t mean you can skip steps. The single biggest factor of if you have a high performing team, is if you made the right hiring decisions.

The following tool includes 5 resources to streamline your hiring process, make it easier for you to find and source top talent, and give you structure to run a thoughtful and equitable hiring process.

What’s In The Tool?

Investing time in a thorough and equitable hiring process is an essential part of a campaign living its values. This hiring guide is for anyone who finds themselves in a position to hire a campaign team. If this is your first time on the opposite side of an interview, this guide is definitely for you.

This tool includes covers the following:

• ✍️ A guide that walks you through all the steps and best practices of a thoughtful hiring process, including writing a job description, reviewing resumes, conducting interviews, checking References, making an offer
• 🏗️ Job Description Templates to make it as easy as possible for you to write your job description and get it out in front of top talent
• 📊 A salary database so you can make a competitive salary range for your role that will attract the best of the best
• 🎯 A hiring tracker so you can keep track of everyone you have communicated with in the hiring process and centralize your notes
• 💼 Links to Arena Careers and a comprehensive list of jobs boards so you can get your job description in front of as much talent as possible
• 🥇 The Arena Talent Bank so you can supercharge your recruiting process and find the best talent in politics

Don’t forget, there are few things more important to your organization than finding and hiring the best talent.