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.
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.
When most companies recruit they focus on three main areas: skills, qualifications and experience. However, these are not the areas that cause problems down the line.
Recruitment is hard. Yet, sometimes it’s not possible to outsource it to someone else.
Recruitment forces you to discriminate. You have to go through a process that allows you to uncover the distinction between your candidates and choose the best one.
Sometimes, the real show-stoppers to recruitment are not the little things you’ve worked so hard to identify, they’re the big, obvious things that it’s so easy to take for granted.
Limitless Holidays. A foreign idea to most of us, but not to Richard Branson or those at Netflix Inc.
If one of your employees is pregnant then, no doubt, you’ll be gearing up for her maternity leave.
For many businesses July and August are a chance to take things easy. And we can understand why…
“Britain’s couch potato lifestyle contributes to as many deaths as smoking and threatens to bankrupt public services.”
