Hire The Best There Is
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When setting out to hire new talent for your company, the challenge of finding the absolute best there is can be very frustrating and time consuming. With so many people out of work today, you are bound to have hundreds of applications rolling in just for one position to fill! I have put together a suggestion list of ways to ensure you find your company the very best there is out there.
- Background checks. Always, always, always do a background check on every person that you are seriously contemplating to fill your position. You may think by their resume, references and interview that they are just awesome, but you never know what they have been able to cleverly hide up to this point in life.
- Give your serious candidates a personality test. People can “fake” their way through almost anything in order to get a great paying job. But if you perform a personality test, it will give you a good sense of the type of person they really are and if they will fit well in with all of your other employees.
- Manage Smarter suggests performing a drug screening test. Yes this is become more of an issue today. Actually, a recent study showed that 75% of illegal drug users are already employed somewhere! Why take the chance of getting into that situation and jeopardizing your companies reputation.
- Expose the candidate to the work and the work environment: Give the candidate a realistic understanding of what the day-to-day work will be like. Don’t just paint a pretty picture. It’s best to be honest with candidates about what the job entails, including the high points and the low points.
Strategic Growth Advisors on September 2nd, 2009 8:07 pm
Hey, Jaclyn. Thanks for the nice post.
Selecting potential employees from a pool of candidates is surely a tough task. I agree with your premise that running through resumes and having short interviews are still not enough to dig deep into the candidate’s true self.
This post from SAMBA Blog also provides great tips and pointers how to hire the best candidate (or candidates) there is.
Team The Rise To The Top on September 2nd, 2009 9:20 pm
Hi Jaclyn,
Great post, also when doing a background check employers should make sure that they check social media sites such as facebook, twitter and blogs to check up on future employees. These sites are free and sometimes they may reveal a lot about your futur employee.
Thanks!
Dape on September 3rd, 2009 2:55 am
The company I worked before my present employment implemented drink and drugs policy (random testing)that applied to all workers including directors, managers and general workforce (UK national company). I would like to see this policy implemented for all companies. Then again I suppose because I am tea-total people would maybe think that I am bias. Maybe-not regards Dape
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