Posts Tagged ‘hiring best practices’
Hire People Not Skills: Hiring with Company Values. (The Worksheet)
Hiring new employees. You have outlined the job, listed necessary skills, and conducted thorough interviews. And still, it can go wrong. Who are you hiring Part of the problem is that you are not hiring a skill. You are not hiring a machine, which is programmed to do one thing over and over and be…
Read MoreThe Talent Trap: Why New Employees Are Not Meeting Expectations. (The Worksheet)
You are hiring good people. Skilled people. Talented people. Motivated people. These people will make your business better, no doubt. But then why are they still making mistakes? Why is the work not up to the standard you expect? It’s more than skill, talent, and motivation Because they can’t do it all on their own. …
Read MoreHiring Hack: How Knowing Your Differentiation Attracts Top Talent. (The Worksheet)
What does top talent mean? Here’s the point of this week’s worksheet: there is no single answer to that question. There is only the right answer for your business. Because it is not about the top technical skill or the top skill in these postcodes. It is about who will work best in your business,…
Read MoreWhat you don’t know about… Hiring Risks 🤪
Hiring employees. It’s risky business. It’s also necessary. Knowing the risks of hiring makes you less likely to run into them. This is why I spoke with Charlotte Merritt. Charlotte works at Insperity and her mission is to reduce employee turnover. “Each time you hire – whether to backfill or grow, you are opening yourself…
Read MoreThe People Equation: Branding + Hiring = Formula for Double Success (6/8)🤩
Have you noticed a common theme throughout these branding posts? It keeps coming up even if not explicitly. What am I talking about? People. It’s always all about people. How people in your company behave. How people in your company work. People and branding are tightly intertwined. Branding or hiring, which comes first? A strong…
Read MoreHire the right customer experience team 🥇 (5/6)
Every area of your business needs the right people in the right seats. And the right people for your customer experience team can make or break the business. When clients work with happy employees and when they feel taken care of, they will be happy to do, and continue doing, business with you. So far…
Read MoreYour org chart shouldn’t look like an octopus
“Make an organizational chart?” He asked me. “But that’s so 20th century, do businesses still do that?” Only the good ones. The problem was never organizational charts: the problem was always bad organizational charts. And in small businesses, org charts are even harder, because so many people fill multiple roles. Pretty soon they look like…
Read MoreThe most important line in your job descriptions
There’s one sentence in your job description that matters the most. If you were only allowed to share one line from your job description, this would be the line to share. It’s the line that tells people what to do. And it goes like this: “The purpose of this role is…” A job adds value…
Read MoreHow to give the people what they want: hr edition
“Organizations… are nothing more than the collective goodwill and aspirations of the people involved”. – Sergio Marchionne As a business owner, you are responsible for the collective goodwill, you are the vehicle for people to achieve those aspirations. You are, in short, responsible for a positive working environment. The workforce solutions company ManpowerGroup did the…
Read MoreHow to hire all the worst people
Only hire people you’d want to go out and have a drink with. Only hire people you wouldn’t spend time with when you’re not at work. Always hire the smartest guy in the room. Never hire the guy who has all the answers. Hire people just like you. Hire people nothing like you. All of…
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