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Improve your Hiring Process
Kate Brown • Apr 09, 2019
Improving Success: Ensure your new hire can deliver.
No matter how thorough the hiring process, there’s no guarantee your new employee will be a “keeper.” We all make mistakes, but a regrettable hire costs time and money, and can have knock-on effects to other staff, clients and your reputation.
Here are a few simple tips to help you to create a hiring process with a higher chance of success.
Not Knowing What You Want
Whether you’re looking for someone to fill a brand new role or to step into an existing one, it is a great time to think critically about your needs and put together a great position description.
Be clear what you expect from applicants and be specific about the role requirements. Going through this process helps you to be more focused on a candidate’s qualifications and less likely to make a hiring decision based on their charming personality displayed in the interview.
Bias
We’re all biased to some point. It can make us see things that aren’t there as well as not see things that are. Before reviewing someone’s resume or sitting down for an interview, firmly check your preconceptions at the door. It can often help to get a second opinion, or to interview in pairs.
A well structured interview can also help, by forcing you to focus on key success factors, and to evaluate candidates on the same criteria.
Not Enough Time
At some time or another, we all have found ourselves desperate to “put a body in a chair.” This is not a good situation. Rushing to hire can create all kinds of short- and long-term problems, including making the interview process almost worthless. If you’re determined to find someone qualified for the job, you’ll find a way to do it. Interviews that are too short are ineffective.
You can’t get to know much of anything you need to know in less than an hour. It’s also wise to have more than one interview, because time to reflect can provide valuable insight.
Not Having a Tool to Evaluate Candidate Traits
Carefully honed intuition is a powerful tool in life and business. That said, relying on your gut to make a decision about who to hire can be problematic. Let’s face it, our gut can often mislead us. Here’s why: people who are good at interviewing aren’t always the most qualified for the job.
We often interpret the ability to speak well and project confidence as competence, and, let’s be honest, we’re often wrong about that. A shocking number new hires fail within the first 18 months on the job. Not because of skills, but because of job traits like lack of coachability, emotional intelligence, and temperament.
Even the most empathic interviewer can’t detect the absence of these traits just by talking to a candidate for a few hours. Instead, incorporate a behavioral assessment into the hiring process. This objective tool reveals the candidate’s preferences, traits, and behavioural tendencies in the workplace. Armed with this information, a hiring manager can more reliably match the candidate’s qualities with the job requirements.
“Winging” It
Evaluating skill requires preparation. Unfortunately, many managers think they can wing the interview and hire based on chemistry. Never a good idea. And typically, a sure-fire way to make the wrong hiring decision. Chemistry is not a precursor to good performance. Sure, no one wants to spend hours a day with someone whose personality grates on them, but a likeable individual who can’t get the job done will become pretty unlikable in no time.
The job interview holds a lot of weight in the selection process. Don’t let your next new hire be a flop. Know what’s needed for the job, avoid bias, don’t rush the process, and use a behavioural assessment tool to help you make the most informed hiring decision…not your gut!
The Omnia selection profile
is totally customised for each business and each role and is unique in that it assesses compatibility of the candidate for the role, for the culture of the business and for the team. Ask us today how simple Omnia testing is to add to your process.
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Kate Brown
www.omniaprofiling.com.au
Sunshine Coast - Australia - 0411 164 431
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