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Hiring is like buying a house

30/7/2021

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​When people are your biggest asset, it’s so disappointing when you get them wrong. It drains resources, is time consuming and stressful.
 
Doing your due diligence on candidates, in an effective way, before hiring them, is absolutely essential if you want to avoid heart sinking mistakes.
 
I liken the process of recruiting someone to buying a house. Here’s my analogy.

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How to design a recruitment process you can trust

27/7/2021

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​When people are your biggest asset, it’s so disappointing when you get them wrong. It drains resources, is time consuming and stressful.
 
The cost of hiring the wrong person is generally calculated to be 30% of first year salary plus the more intangible costs of reduced productivity, team morale, training, rehiring etc.  What a waste.

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Only men need apply

5/7/2021

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​The smart first step to hiring a new team member is working out what the requirements for a job are, and which related skills and attributes candidates must possess to be successful.

But don’t get carried away

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Will they work through their lunch break?

27/5/2021

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​Will they work through their lunch break?

This is a question I was asked recently by a small business owner. I know this guy well and he’s not the sort of manager to dump piles of work on his staff and expect them to stay until it’s all done.

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It's all about me

24/4/2021

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I recently organised a follow up meeting with someone I’d met at a networking group. Nothing unusual about this, I know, but I was particularly excited as she was based in Manchester which is a new area for me to develop contacts and relationships.  

My natural instinct, as an experienced interviewer, is to start off asking someone about themselves and their business so this is how we began.
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You don't know what you don't know

28/3/2021

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​Yesterday, I learned some interesting things about Generation Z (18-25 year olds).
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  • 78% of them would be happy to have a device embedded into their arm so that they never have to be without the internet.
  • They view using a full stop in a text as being rude.
  • Being left a voicemail makes them angry.

Who would have known?!

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We want to do it better

22/2/2021

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​‘We want to do it better’

This is what many clients say to me at the start of our working relationship.

‘We’re haphazard, unstructured and not really very good at recruiting the right people, in fact we find it quite stressful’.

They realise things could be done differently and more effectively but can’t quite put their finger on what needs to change.

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I'd rather tidy my sock drawer

14/1/2021

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​​Having a structured recruitment process in place helps filter out unsuitable candidates before they’ve taken up much of your time.

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Can you drive?

8/11/2020

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​We’ve just become proud owners of a new car. Well new to us. Nothing fancy, but it gets us from A to B nicely and comfortably. It’s a lovely upgrade from our previous 15 year old, faithful family car. That, had electric windows that didn’t go back up, a sat nav that had a very annoying beep that didn’t turn off and a music system that only did radio.

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How do I shut him up?

19/10/2020

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​I was having a conversation with someone yesterday who has a job interview next week. He was doing a lot of the talking and was, in my opinion, scarily verbose.  I was thinking to myself, what a challenging interview his would be to conduct and am hoping that his interviewer is well trained and experienced in controlling and keeping interviews to time. Otherwise this interview is going to be a record breaker!

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