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| Hiring, Terminations and Retention |
| Hiring The Right Person: We can help you succeed! |
So, you want to hire the most talented, adaptable employee the market has to offer. How will you find her? Which of his characteristics will tip you off to the fact that he’ll be a perfect fit for your company?
Hiring strategies are increasingly more important in our litigious society. Hire the wrong person and you may be in for months of misery, or worse, a future lawsuit. Here are some tips that should help you increase the odds that the employee you hire will meet all of your expectations:
- Your best people may already be working for you. Don’t neglect the possibility of hiring from within the company. Promotion from within builds loyalty and improves overall employee morale.
- A resume’ isn’t everything. Writing a resume is a skill. But if you’re after a terrific mechanical engineer, you may have to look past a misspelling or two and opt for face-to-face meetings to find out what you really need to know about his skills.
- Consider a background check. You’ll want to rely on us to help you with this. We can help you identify a violent or unqualified employee before the damage is done.
- Use caution when checking references. The legalities behind reference checks are getting to be touchy. Let us train your supervisors about reference check roadblocks. We can also suggest some resourceful options for finding out what an employee is really like.
- Just how desperate are you, anyway? You want to sell the position to a candidate, but you may not want to do too good a job. Otherwise you’ll fill the vacancy with a reluctant employee.
- Take care to make a good first impression. Remember, the employee’s first impression of your company is just as important as your first impression of him/her.
We can suggest dozens of other tips for hiring right. Our Human Resource Department specializes in helping you find the right employees. Call for more information about how we can help.
(See also: Max Messmer. The Fast Forward MBA in Hiring. John Wiley & Sons.)
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