Regardless of the industry you are in or how disruptive the market is, employing the right candidates for your company will always be crucial for its success. The proper fit for your business should not only have the expertise but also the experience to efficiently perform tasks. However, their values and personality should coincide with those of your company. 

Many entrepreneurs often have good intuition about whether a candidate is right for the job or not. However, you shouldn’t rely on only your gut feelings for decisions like this. The recruitment process has to be easy and founded on substantial, objective factors. In this article, we’ll be going through seven important steps to avoid poor hiring decisions. 

Evaluate Your Company’s Values

To hire the best candidates always, you need to have a clear definition of what your firm needs. What is your company worth? What are its objectives? What kind of individuals will fit right in? What mentality would you want your employees to have? Consider looking at potential employees with these bigger pictures in mind and assess how they fare.

Develop Detailed Job and Company Descriptions 

If you fail to conceptualize a vivid description of what your company’s employees’ tasks are, you will find employing the ideal candidate difficult. You have to develop extensive job descriptions for every position in your company, mirroring the duties, level of experience and skills required. Similar to developing a job description, you also have to create a company description. This allows individuals to know what your company is about before applying for the position. This is particularly important if you are using a job search platform. You can mirror Blue Origin jobs descriptions on Lensa to get a few pointers on what your job description should look like. 

Prepare Well-Planned Interviews 

Develop an assessment scorecard that you could use to grade and contrast the performances between candidates on an array of criteria. During the interview, it’s best to have conversations with major contenders and incorporate other high-profile individuals such as the manager and a member of HR into the process.

Ensure you get answers to personal questions, such as whether they loved their previous job or not, why they left their previous job, or whether they’d prefer working in a group or alone. Ensure you utilize behaviour-based interviewing approaches. These involve asking candidates to detail how they’ve handled certain challenges in past positions. Previous performances are the best determinant of future performances. 

Conduct Various Tests, Assessments, and Screenings 

Another essential aspect of the hiring procedure should be to properly test the candidates. You can begin by assessing candidates’ resumes to ensure that they fit properly into the company. Afterwards, you can conduct an accounting or HR assessment to ensure that they are technically capable. 

Look Past the Resume 

The most qualified individuals on paper might not always be the ideal fit for the position. Try looking past the resume by asking about the candidate’s ambitions, priorities, and interests. If working under a big firm with a lucrative salary is their primary objective, they will find it hard to work for a firm that cannot guarantee this benefit. 

Contact a DEI Company 

To audit your company’s hiring practices, you should consider hiring a DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) company. Besides auditing the hiring process, DEI companies also provide feedback on changes businesses could make to ensure that the hiring process is as inclusive as possible and allure a more diversified talent pool. DEI initiatives can aid companies to establish a more significant pipeline of competent candidates and develop a more productive and positive employer brand. 

Request References 

It’s also a safer idea to take some time out to validate references. While many businesses prefer to not give out references about past employees, conducting reference checks remains one of the most ideal ways to get important information about potential employees. To be more thorough, you can consider doing some independent research by contacting companies or individuals who have worked with or who know the candidate previously. 

Employees are the most essential element of any business, in charge of how you function, how you are presented to customers and clients, and primarily how productive you are. 

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HR Future Staff Writer