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Take the Headaches Out of Hiring PDF Print E-mail

The problem is that we tend to hire people for what they know and fire them for who they are. Hiring is time-consuming and many business owners feel that it is hit and miss. As a result, there is a tendency to hold on to non-performers because it is easier to keep them than hire somebody else.

  

Are you putting up with mediocrity in your employees because you don’t have an effective hiring process? Are you:

  • Frustrated by employee turnover and lack of productivity
  • Finding that the quality of the people they hire is less than expected
  •  Wishing you knew which applicants were most likely to succeed

These common problems can be fixed if you adopt a hiring process. Your company needs to develop a

process that has four simple components:

  1. Establish the profile of the ideal candidate by identifying what soft skills you are looking for
  2. Develop a pool of qualified candidates by getting enough resumes so that you have a real choice
  3. Grade candidates with a pre-screening filter that matches them to the behavioral style you want
  4. Evaluate the most effective match of talents and behaviors to the job and interview more effectively
 
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