When we advertised our job posts through different media nobody reacted. Headhunters would send us candidates which were too expensive for what they were worth.

When we advertised our job posts through different media nobody reacted. Headhunters would send us candidates which were too expensive for what they were worth. So I ended up hiring ex-colleagues and friends who I convinced to start working for us. In the mean time we took 2 interns a year offering a job to the suitable candidate(s). This we we were able to hire staff. The slow hiring process meant I needed to outsource some projects abroad to off shore development companies.