Hire and Keep the Right Employees

Hiring is No Joke. You won’t do it right every time. But you can try!

Most business owners don’t realize how difficult it can be to hire the right employee until it’s too late. When someone is hired that is a wrong fit for your company, it can be costly, time-consuming, and cause some damage to your work environment! Do you want to enhance the culture, morale, and productivity at your business?

Then let’s discuss some strategies for hiring the right people and KEEPING them!

• Performing a Job Analysis. Involve and interview your employees in their current positions and observe their day-to-day. This is important when performing a job analysis so that you can update your job descriptions before you’re on the hunt for the right person! You’ll want to identify and summarize the job; as well as including duties, responsibilities, specifications, and disclaimers/approval.
• Creating a recruiting strategy plan. As a business owner, you’ll want to understand the benefits of hiring your new employees. Write out your recruiting costs, salary ranges, taxes, benefits, training, equipment, and onboarding. It’s also important to measure the amount of time you want to take to hire. Taking too long or hiring too quickly could cause trust problems or lead to hiring the wrong person. We all know a bad hire is expensive.
•  Creating a checklist and hiring the right person for the job. Determine the order of steps you want to take to hire someone this time. Write them out and follow them exactly – making sure it’s within your hiring time frame. From determining your need for a new hire or position to scheduling a start date for your new employee.
• Pre-screen your candidates. Pre-screening is important when you want to find and keep the right employee. This also can reduce the recruiting time and improve the precision of your hiring process. Figure out different pre-screening methods you’d love to use in getting to know your candidate before bringing them onto the team.
• Ask the right questions.  Stay away from the standard questions and get creative! Ask challenging questions that also give the interviewee the opportunity to offer solutions. This article from Forbes is a great read to figure out if they are competent, capable, compatible, and committed.
• Let them interview you. This is a great way to gauge some level of interest your candidate has in the job position. It also assists with getting a feel for their personality and seeing how comfortable you interact with one another.
• Stay up to date with digital and social media trends. 45 percent of job seekers use their mobile devices to search for jobs at least once every day. So make sure that career site is mobile-friendly! The majority of candidates between the ages of 22 to 60 want to work for digitally enabled organizations.

Keep your employees productive and happy. 

Employees want to feel like they’re valuable and are a crucial part of the team. This leads to being more productive and delivering results for their employer.  Openly praise them and set goals that are obtainable. It is extremely important to take their needs seriously and be that push of motivation so that they stay on track! If you want your employees to be committed and successful for your company, you need to treat them as such.

Are you having a hard time with hiring and keeping the right employee? Let’s come up with a plan!