Hiring the right employees for your business can be a challenge. Most of my clients in Miami and Fort Lauderdale were adamant that they have excellent recruiting processes. The people they hired went through rigorous interviews, had great backgrounds, and should be performing at expected levels. However, the key performance indicators were telling a different story.
Dismissing the usual answer — “the employee must have lied during their interview” — we dug deeper and asked these key questions:
After asking all the key questions, management realized they were hiring the right employees, but for the wrong jobs. The people they hired were a good fit for their core values and were well-credentialed. They just were not what these companies needed in order to produce the required outcomes for the jobs at hand. We see this all the time!
Management does not spend enough time really understanding the true attributes needed in the person to successfully fill the position. When attempting to hire the right people, there are many considerations in terms of experience, skills, talent, behavioral profile, and values needed to fill the role. In most cases, management fails to think this through before they hire the employee. Sometimes ,they go through the work of identifying what is needed and then fail to be patient in looking for candidates that completely fill those requirements. The result is a wrong hire.
If you want to increase your success with hiring the right employees, it is imperative that you answer these questions before beginning your recruiting process. Make sure that everyone involved in the selection process knows the answers to these questions, and measure your hiring decisions against how well the candidates match the criteria. For those of you reading this and saying that you’ll take attitude over credentials any day, I say you better get both.
Our clients have found their hiring success has improved dramatically once they have made a proper commitment to job design and position profiling. Only after you answer these questions should you begin your recruiting processes. The answers to these questions will help you have a much better mental picture of the ideal person. Without this information it becomes hard to screen out candidates as the ideal person is too vague.
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