How can you be sure that you’re not taking on difficult employees who will bring ‘heart ache’ into your business?
It all starts with employing people and making sure that you’re getting what you think you’re getting. So as part of the hiring process we suggest you follow these two golden rules.
Golden Rule #1
Develop a process for testing the specific skills required in the job.
Many business owners in their haste to fill a gap do not go through a rigorous process for hiring employees.
Think about the specific requirements and develop a series of tests that will ensure the person can actually DO them rather than talking about it.
A client of ours has developed a maths test which all employees must pass as part of the interview and since implementing this has had relatively no issues with hiring for the competencies of that particular job.
Make sure you get potential employees to perform some actual work not just go through a spoken interview.
Golden Rule #2
Develop a process for testing the behavioural skills for the job.
There is a uniqueness about every employee in your business. The last thing you would intentionally do is hire someone into a position where they would continually struggle!
Although you may think that many people are alike, getting the best out of your employees and matching that uniqueness and skills to the job will ensure you maximise the benefit of employees to your business.
Unfortunately many business owners don’t test for this as part of their interview process and then about three months later are confronted by the “real” employee rather than the “interview” employee.
There are many different tools you can use such as DISC and Myers Briggs but the particular one we use is called Business DNA.
Using tools like these can make sure you have an objective measure of the behavioural strengths and struggles before an employee starts in your business.
What’s your experience in hiring employees?
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