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21 PRACTICAL AND PROVEN TECHNIQUES - Coggle Diagram
21 PRACTICAL AND PROVEN TECHNIQUES
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?
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
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.”
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