21 PRACTICAL AND PROVEN TECHNIQUES

  1. Make Selection
    Your Top Priority

The very best time to fire a person is the first time the thought crosses your mind

Make a list of three people you have hired in the past who didn’t work out, and then write down three lessons you learned from these hiring mistakes

Make a list of the names of some of the best hires you have ever made

What did these hiring decisions have in common?

How could you apply these general principles to a hiring decision you are dealing with today?

  1. Think Through the Job

How will you both be able to determine that the job has been done well?

What results must come out of the other end of the pipeline for you to know that the person has done the job in an excellent fashion?

Think through what the person is expected to accomplish, day in and day out

Determined the results required, identify the exact
skills that the ideal candidate will have to have in order to get those results

Identify the personal attributes or qualities that the ideal candidate will have

  1. Write Out the Job Description

Determine what kind of attitude or personality you want the person to have

Think about the people with whom the person will be working

List every function and responsibility that the individual will have to fulfill to do the job properly

Decide what is more important and what is less important to success in the position. Use a simple scoring method of one (low priority) to ten (high priority) for each item.

Make a list of every task the individual will be doing from the time he or she starts in the morning until the time he or she finishes in the evening.

Divide the lists into “musts” and “wants.”

  1. Cast a Wide Net

Tell your customers, your bankers, your suppliers, your friends, your acquaintances

Executive recruiters and placement agencies

Create a bonus system in your company for employees who find new candidates for the job openings you have

Newspaper ads or Internet

Conduct an internal search for the kind of person you are looking for before you consider going outside

Local community colleges

LinkedIn