Hiring the right people, for the right reasons, is an important step in making your business a success.

When you run your own business you can’t live in a vacuum. Not if you want to build a successful business.

You must have on board the right people who are engaged in the process and the vision and bring them along with you.

The people you want around you are raring to go, bringing you tons of customers, delivering your products and services to those customers in a way that keeps them coming back; and helping to make your business  profitable.  They are people who will also eagerly spread your message.

This means you must attract and keep great people with attitudes, and values that mesh with yours – as well as building your existing people into great people.

It means focusing on the people you already have and the people you want to have in the future.

When it comes to your employees – existing and future – you need to see and understand things from their side.   Your staff are people too, with their own aspirations, hopes and dreams.  Understand what they are looking for in a job; in an employer and in a manager.

They are going to spend a lot of their time at work wherever that may be – so why would they not be looking for it to be enjoyable and stimulating?  If you have people who are just wanting to clock on and clock off – you need first to look at yourself and how you are leading and managing them.  Businesses are a reflection of their leader. And if they came to you like that, then perhaps you need to look closely at your recruiting and hiring processes.

And talking of recruiting and hiring, when the right systems are not in place and someone leaves suddenly, it’s usually up to the owner to step in and cover their position – as well as doing their own work.

This is where ‘hiring desperation’ comes into play.  It’s the “I don’t care who they are, as long-as-they’re-breathing” method of hiring.  And part of that disastrous game is spending the whole interview talking too much,  and trying to “sell’ the applicant into the job.

The cracks appear when things settle down again and all the red flags ignored in the desperation interview begin to appear.

In my next post, I will be talking about what some of those classic interviewing mistakes are and how to avoid them.

Till next time…

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