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Hiring Employees for Success
Could your employee hiring process use some improvement? Do you find that your hire employees and their employment is short-lived? This article will provide you with information that can help you with hiring employees so that you can cut costs and maximize productivity in your organization. Whether you're an owner, an executive or a manager, the following information will be beneficial to you.
Hiring employees by understanding the core characteristics of your company's top performers will increase your chances for success.
The renowned business guru, Peter Drucker, estimates that two-thirds of the decisions made about hiring employees may be mistakes.
From your experience you know you have hired some excellent employees and some who failed. Now take a moment and think back. Did you use the same employee screening method to hire both? Typically we find that employers do employ the same methods for each position. This suggests that your existing employee selection process may produce inconsistent hiring results.
Hire the right person for the right job. Understand the core characteristics of top performers in a job and use them as a benchmark to measure job candidates.
Employee hiring solutions provide invaluable employee screening tools for increasing consistency in hiring employees. What makes these tools work is job fit technology. Job fit combines tested and reliable data derived from our pre employment screening solutions with a customized job analysis survey to create a benchmark by which you can hire an employee who best fits your job and company.
Understanding Job Fit
Job fit technology is the most advanced, state-of-the-art solution available today for measuring human potential and predicting job performance. Using job fit as a key part of your system for hiring employees, you will be able to uncover why some of your employees perform at extraordinary levels, while others who appear to be equally qualified, are only average performers. Placing the right people in the right positions will make a positive impact within your organization.
By including job fit technology as a key factor in your process for hiring employees, your allocation of human capital will be significantly more effective. Most employee hiring decisions are made with inadequate information; however, these solutions will deliver the information you need to know before tendering a job offer and making a hiring mistake.
Now, take a moment and ask yourself these quick questions.
- Would you like to know in advance if a candidate has issues with substance abuse or employee theft?
- Would you like the ability to predict whether or not they have the work ethic and reliability required to be successful in their position?
- Would you like to know if the candidate is going to be a good fit for the job and your company?
- Would you like to hire more top performers?
If your answer is yes to any one of these questions, pre-hire assessments can also help.
Pre-hire assessments are a natural extension to your existing hiring process. They can be seamlessly integrated into most applicant tracking systems. And, with pre-hire assessments, you will be able to identify and hire candidates who are reliable, ethical and hardworking by checking criminal records, education credentials and other background information. Knowing this information about candidates before they are hired is absolutely essential, because businesses large and small can be held liable for accidents and crimes committed by its employees.
A pre-hire survey is a scientifically designed assessment tool that evaluates job applicants' attitudes for integrity, substance abuse, reliability, and work ethic. This can empower you with a structured system to objectively obtain better information, identify the best candidates, and conduct better interviews.
Pre-hire employment assessments will also help your organization develop a strategic hiring process that will minimize the costs associated with hiring and recruiting employees.
About the Author Jim Sirbasku is co-founder and CEO of Profiles International, a leading provider of human resource management solutions and employment assessments for businesses worldwide. For more information about hiring employees, visit our website.
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