The Essential Guide to Hiring the Right People

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The Essential Guide to Hiring the Right People

Transcript of The Essential Guide to Hiring the Right People

The

Essential

Guide to

Hiring the Right People

Step one:

Create a Profile

of your Ideal Candidate

Identify

your

top performer

Creating a Profile:

Which characteristics

do you want to emulate?

Creating a Profile:

What skills are

necessary?

Creating a Profile:

What level of education is required?

Creating a Profile:

Are there any job

specific critical

requirements?

Creating a Profile:

Create a Job Description

Step two:

Creating a Job Description:

Keep it broad!

Creating a Job Description:

Highlight the

minimum

requirements

Creating a Job Description:

Document key performance

indicators

Use Behavioral Interviewing

Step three:

Matches the Candidate with the Profile

Behavioral Interviewing:

Use your candidate profile to highlight

what skills are vital to the position

Create 2 – 3 questions for each skill or

competency you want to match

Uncovers Competencies and Deficiencies

Behavioral Interviewing:

Prepare your questions ahead of time

Decide what you can and cannot live with

or without

Use the same questions if you are

interviewing multiple candidates

Allow time for silence (10 – 15 seconds)

before restating the question

Score question responses closely after

the interview is concluded

Minimizes Costly Hiring Errors!

Behavioral Interviewing:

Temp to Perm

Earn the right to work

on a great team!

Create a

Post- Hiring

Evaluation

Step four:

Complete a 30 Day check up.

Does your new candidate meet your expectations

Do they match your desired profile

Post Hire Evaluation:

Have your candidate complete a self evaluation and

on-the-job survey.

Post Hire Evaluation:

Do your evaluation and their self evaluation match up?

Have a discussion. Set expectations.

Post-Hire Evaluation:

Hiring the Right People

makes work FUN

Keys to finding them

Time well spent:

They recognize the fact that if they are spending 40+ hours a

week working, it’s a good idea to like what they do for a living!

Characteristics of the “Right Candidate:

They get behind

the company’s

core mission and

make a plan to

consistently

deliver results.

Characteristics of the “Right Candidate:

They take the responsibility of their work seriously.

Characteristics of the “Right Candidate:

They feel good about

what they accomplish

each day!

Characteristics of the “Right Candidate:

ResourcesHere are some additional links providing tips on how to hire the right people for your business:

ThinkEnergyGroup: How to Hire Top Performers

Aerotek: Behavioral Interviewing to Hire Top Performers

Top 10 Behavioral Interview Questions

SBA: Writing Effective Job Descriptions

Chron.Com: Building Strong Teamwork