Ten Things you Must Do to Hire Right The First Time
If it seems like there’s a lot to recruitment, it’s because there is.
If it seems like there’s a lot to recruitment, it’s because there is.
Our clients come back to us time and again because of the way we do things. They also tell us how other recruitment companies do things.
We have to admit that we’ve made a huge assumption. We’ve assumed that you know what we mean by recruitment success.
Back in March 2014, we discussed changes in the recruitment market – especially in terms of finding high quality candidates. In summary, our conclusions were:
Christian Bowman, Active Informatics
Charles Stanley-Evans, Haynes Hanson & Clark
Theo van Dort, Inclusive Video
Having happy, motivated staff increases your productivity and simply makes your company a better place to work. We’ve discussed how to hire right and the importance of attitude over skills. But there’s one more vital aspect that you’ll need to get right if you want to hire staff that stay – the job itself.
Building a business is risky. Every day you face the threat of losing market share to your competitors or new technology. You even face the risk of theft or hacking and take steps to make your place of work secure. But what if we told you your greatest threat comes from within? For these companies, their biggest threat came from their own employee
Two weeks in, you realise you’ve hired the wrong person. Knowing you’re going to have to ‘let them go’ and start the whole process again, you worry about the money you wasted on recruitment and their salary.