Why do companies struggle to fill a role?  The answer is that sometimes companies are so fixated on their set criteria they miss a trick.

The fact is transferable skills are over-looked because line managers are not trained to look at the potential in an individual, thinking outside of the box and what else they can bring to the table.  For example, even though a potential has the skills and experience but not the specific industry experience, they decide to hold back until they get someone that has all of their desirable person specifications.

This in turn has its’ set-backs and has a huge impact on the existing team like:

The benefits of flexing slightly on, for example the industry, brings a different outlook to your company and department, new processes or procedures could be implemented or amended to increase productivity, further insight to how other companies work could leverage the operation improving interaction and engagement, up-skilling existing teams enhancing motivation, better more efficient practices adding value to relevant parties and the list goes on….

So don’t be blinkered, give potentials a second interview, explore how they could add value to your team but move quickly to avoid the risk of impacting the current team, workflow and output!