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Beat Your Competition with These New Year's Hiring Resolutions
Another year has passed and it's time to make your New Year's
resolutions. While others will be hitting the gym and chomping
on nicotine gum, you can get a leg up on your competition with
these hiring techniques to build your workforce in 2006.
Hire Slow, Fire Fast
The first and most important resolution you can make in the New
Year is to stop waiting until the last minute to hire a new
employee and stop letting the dead weight in your department
drag the rest of the group down. Management is not an easy task,
and hiring always seems to end up on the bottom of the 'to do'
list. Because of this, managers always tend to rush the hiring
process since they, "needed someone yesterday."
Resolve to make your life easier this year by being proactive
when it's time to hire a new employee. By taking the appropriate
amount of time to hire talented candidates, you'll save yourself
the future management headaches that come from rushed hiring
mistakes.
Similarly, commit to terminating those employees that aren't
meeting your expectations on a consistent basis. This resolution
is a little harder to execute since these people rarely do
anything to overtly attract your attention to their poor
performance. By establishing clear performance expectations,
you'll have a better understanding of when to deliver a pink
slip.
Stop Selling Your Jobs
One of the easiest mistakes in hiring is getting overly excited
about great candidates and trying to sell them on all the
reasons why they should take your job. This can lead to
incorrect assumptions about the position, resulting in
unexpected turnover and an overall bad fit.
To solve this problem in the New Year, commit to creating
realistic performance expectations in writing for every employee
you intend to hire. This should include a dated timeline of
expected accomplishments for the first 30 to 180 days of the job
depending on the complexity and breadth of responsibilities.
Once you've documented these expectations, openly communicate
them to any candidate that is being considered. Also, don't
hesitate to talk about the struggles and challenges that a
candidate might have. This open communication should weed out
unmotivated candidates as well as energize those ready for the
task.
Stop Hiring on First Impressions
How many times have you hired someone you really liked and they
turned out to be a poor performer? We often rely on our emotions
in hiring which leads to making quick judgments based on our
initial
impressions. When this happens, great candidates are
overlooked because of superficial indicators of their ability
while poor candidates are hired for their superior presentation
skills. While personality is an important factor, intellectual
ability, technical skills, desire, and core values should also
be considered in any hiring decision.
If you tend to lean toward making snap judgments on job
candidates, follow these steps to overcome hiring errors based
on initial impressions. First, make sure that before you go into
an interview, you write down the areas of competency you intend
to assess to get a complete picture of their ability. Second,
make a firm decision before going into any interview that you
won't allow the first few minutes to determine your decision.
Next, make sure you follow through with the proper line of
questioning that will lead to the answers you need. Finally,
wait thirty minutes after an interview ends to review your notes
and carefully consider the actual answers that were given rather
than the style in which they were communicated. .
Create Hiring Partners, not Hiring Vendors
A study released this year by the American Staffing Association
revealed that Fortune 500 buyers viewed partnership with their
staffing suppliers as an important part of their business.
However, the same study revealed that only 2 in 5 customers view
their current staffing suppliers as "partners." What this means
is that the majority of companies that work with staffing firms
consider them a vendor rather than a strategic staffing partner.
If this sounds like your company, you may be missing out on some
of the major benefits of a strong partnership with your staffing
firm. To push this relationship to the next level, ensure that
your staffing supplier has a firm understanding of your business
challenges by inviting them to your workforce development
meetings. Also, work with your staffing supplier to develop a
strategic staffing timeline that will ensure that your staffing
challenges are addressed as the business grows and the economy
fluctuates.
This year, resolve to make your hiring process a predictable
business practice rather than an unreliable event and 2006 will
be a landmark year for your workforce.
About the author:
Mike Nacke is the Director of Development for PrideStaff, a
national staffing and recruiting firm and is an expert at
building world class workforces. For more information on how to
attract and retain passionate employees visit www.mikenacke.com.
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