Key Steps to Hire the Ideal Candidate

Starting Off On the Right Foot
There is no management function more critical than hiring. Yet, surprisingly, many companies pay little regard to the importance of an organized and professional Recruiting Campaign.

Step 1. Job Profile

First write down a job description of the tasks this employee will be doing on a daily basis and how those tasks would be done perfectly. By looking at your task descriptions, the skills or attributes that are necessary for the person doing the tasks will become obvious. By creating such a job profile, you will give yourself a checklist of things to look for when you’re interviewing potential employees. Make sure you ask a question about each of the items on your checklist and find out whether the person you’re interviewing fits all of your criteria (or can be taught to fit them).

Try asking candidates to tell you a real story about a time when they demonstrated each of the skills or attributes on your list: past behavior is a good predictor of future behavior.

Having an Ideal Candidate profile can be especially important for hiring managers. By using this profile, you will make sure that your hiring decision is based on real qualifications and you’re really getting the best employee. While some entrepreneurs may feel they are safest to hire family members or friends to work in their small business, they may be overlooking some key skills necessary to achieving the overall goals of the business.

Before you decide to hire someone you already know, ask yourself if they match your Ideal Candidate profile. If not, you may be better to hire a new face. You can even use your profile later to evaluate or Job Match the performance of your current employees and determine their compensation.

Step 2. Corporate Personality

Second write down the corporations' culture, understanding the company’s personality will help in the hiring process. A company’s culture is an intricate part of its success. Each employee has a specific niche that they fill to contribute to the company’s success.

Managers need an accurate understanding of the corporation’s culture in order to direct activities in a productive way and to avoid the destructive influence of having employees who are not committed to the company’s goals. A shared sense of purpose starts with the hiring process and continues with careful attention to how employees are motivated and rewarded for their efforts.

When new employees are brought in, there is a period of adjustment while they find their role within the company.

Most employees who fail to work out, fail because they cannot adapt to their new role.

In the interview, see how much they understood about the corporate culture of their previous/current job. Test if they can explain how they fit into their last position. The more the recruit understands about the informal rules of the workplace, the easier time they will have adjusting. If an employee has little understanding of their environment it might indicate that they are unwilling to learn how things work.

Two key factors for success are learning quickly and wanting to learn.

Discuss the company’s long-term goals and strategy. Cover future projections or large projects in progress. Tell them how fast people are usually promoted up through the company. This helps the recruit to gain a sense of the company’s culture and how individuals fit into the company’s growth plans.

Don’t assume qualifications equals success.

Just because they did a the job in their last position and seem to have all the qualities you are looking for, does not guarantee they will fit in perfectly. The culture of their previous work environment may have meshed well with their strong communication skills, but your company will require a stronger emphasis on planning or organizing, areas your new employee may be weak in. Ask them; What do they see as their strongest and weakest traits? Compare that with what is required of them.

Step 3. Job Match Testing Makes the Difference

Third is job matching assessments, these tools are effective because they compare the qualities of your Ideal Candidates to the attributes of the most productive employees. The patterns tell you whether candidates are alike or different from your top industry performers. Matching people so they fit the work they do builds productivity and job-satisfaction and diminishes negative factors such as stress, tension, conflict, miscommunication, and costly employee turnover.

Every job or position has requirements that go beyond the customary job description when you seek optimum performance and productivity. As an example, jobs that require assertiveness can be performed by people who have been trained to act assertive, but the job will be consistently done better by someone who is naturally assertive. When a person’s job duties conflict with their inborn characteristics, they suffer from tension and stress that can lead to organizational conflict and employee burnout.

Step 4. Hire Right the First Time

This is the most critical step, your investment in money, training, and time to fix a mistake made when hiring a person not competent for, or compatible with the job, is simply enormous. We focus on understanding and objectively measuring core competencies, behaviors, and interests of top performers in companies and industries to insure applicants fit the job the first time.

• Avoid Costly Hiring Mistakes
• Hire Top Industry Performers
• Put the Right Person in the Right Job the First Time
• Identify & Develop Leadership Skills of Supervisors, Managers, and Executives

Building your team and solving your human resource management challenges are fundamental to your success. Add objective measures based on your top performers and our industry expertise, and you will see your performance, sales, and your bottom line grow.

Step 5. Ideal Candidate Search

Compliment your EMACJobs free job postings with Ideal Candidate search alerts to find the active and passive candidates your company needs to succeed. We currently have a database of resumes from industry professionals searching for their Ideal Job.

• Actively pursue profession-specific candidates by keyword searching using the words and phrases important to you.
• Unlimited access lets you find and access candidates nationwide without worrying about daily or monthly caps
• Pinpoint the candidates who best fits your exact needs

EMACJobs.com provides an online recruitment campaign that links to job boards for industry leaders and niche sites. We are focused on helping employers reach their “Ideal Candidates” where they live online and assist in attracting their audience with recruitment advertising products and sourcing services.

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Start the Ideal Candidate search today! Create a Company Profile and create “Ideal Candidate Alert” have new candidates matching your search emailed to you immediately.

At THE EMAC GROUP, we practice the golden rule: “Partnering for Success”. We will take your career goals and aspirations as seriously as you do.

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