You don't know what you don't know

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?!

I’m so glad that I bothered to show up at the webinar to hear expert, Paul Redmond, (international speaker, writer and researcher) present on this fascinating topic.

These are all incredibly useful things for me to know, as many of my SME clients who are expanding their teams, wish to reach out to this group of young people, and attract them to come and work for them.   

However, when these small business owners decide that they need to recruit someone new, they don’t always initially turn to an expert. I often have business owners say to me:  

‘I need to hire someone.’

‘I hate recruiting, it’s a nightmare. ‘

‘You never know if they can do the job, my last new hire couldn’t.’

‘It was so disappointing, he sounded so good in the interview, but just couldn’t do the job and he upset team members and some of my customers.‘

‘We had to let him go.’

Does this sound familiar?

These business owners often can’t quite put their finger on why this happened but know that in order to scale their business they need to become better at recruitment.

They don’t know what they don’t know.

Through working with me, they find out what they don’t know. They learn that they can hire the people their business needs by having a structured recruitment process and that this makes everything a whole lot easier.  

With a new system, they’ll:

• gain a deeper understanding of an individual’s skills and qualities, especially those they thought were particularly hard to assess in the past.  
• get a thorough insight into what makes someone tick.
• find their recruitment decisions to be far more reliable and stress free.  

If you’re ready to recruit your next new team member, and want to know what you don’t know about recruiting the right people, I’d love to hear from you.

Kindest regards
Ali
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PS Here’s a link to Paul Redmond’s blog about how to fast track Generation Covid back to work.
https://www.paul-redmond.co.uk/articles/2021/3/19/where-everybody-knows-your-name-5-ways-to-fast-track-generation-covid-back-to-work