Poor Mental Health at Work!
“Where do I start?!”
You might be thinking that you need an assistant to help with administration tasks or even another sales person to take the weight reducing your workload, so the time has come to recruit but where do you start? So you write a job advert and place on a job board, you get the guaranteed responses but the quality isn’t quite what you had in mind. After trawling through you notice that the applications don’t have the essential or desired skills or experience needed. You ask yourself, where did I go wrong?
Gotcha proves that you have to start with the end in mind. You need to have a goal of the type of person you require, when you need them to ideally start, and who would be ideal. Speak to your existing team too, listen to what their thoughts are. Having this foundation in place, you can then start to create a Job Description. The Job Description is key to productivity and ROI.
Start by mapping out your job role and what the business needs from you. Bullet point tasks/responsibilities that make’s this happen and where your focus needs to be. Then on a separate piece of paper list all the things you don’t have time to do, or you end up doing evenings and weekends because the jobs still need to be done. This separate piece of paper will start to formulate a job description with clarity.
The mistake most Business Owners or Managers make, is that they know they need to recruit and they jump straight to how they’re going to do it…..hence the immediate job board advert posting. This is what we call Panic Recruiting, whereby to be honest, you will probably be back to square one within 28 days because the advert isn’t attracting the talent you need.
Our advice:
1. Think, Look and Listen, engage other team members and hear what they think.
2. Have a goal in mind of the type of person needed and when you need them to ideally start.
2. Bullet point what the business needs from you to be successful, when and how it’s required.
3. Write down on a separate piece of paper tasks/responsibilities/jobs you or the team don’t have time to do.
Bingo…..you have CLARITY!
If you would like further help or guidance, here at Gotcha we help businesses do just this, call 01256 322255 quoting JD blog and we would be happy to help.
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