When hiring employees, it is important to ensure you hire the right people. Thus, it’s better to keep in mind certain tips on how to hire employees.
If you think about it, no man or woman would rush into a marriage without knowing his or her partner inside and out. The same analogy can be used when it comes to hiring the right people for your company. You have surely heard the expression of a person being married to his or her job. This implies that the person is very serious about and dedicated to his or her job, much like he or she would be to the married partner in question. Thus, it is quite an imperative to make sure that the employees you would hire for your company are indeed as serious and dedicated to their jobs, as they would be to their own husbands or wives.
It does not take a genius to do just that at all. There are certain tips on how to hire employees that you can keep in mind. And it is very important to keep these tips in mind because you are actually forming a professional relationship with all of your employees.
The first tip to remember is to know the position or the job. You should do this before you put out an advertisement for the open position. To know the job, you should conduct an inventory on the skills that would be needed, as well create a description of the position. You should also set your requirements as to job experience. If you are not so sure how to go about the skill inventory, then you can interview employees in your company who have held the position before. This way, you will have an idea on what skills are required for the job.
Another tip to remember is to have interview questions ready. Now, this is very important because the applicant’s answers to your questions will serve as a gauge of his or her personality and attitude towards work. There are so many questions that you can ask, but make sure to stay within the legal bounds as well. You can ask about his or her age, living conditions, citizenship, health status, previous employment experiences, organizations they belong to, their hobbies, and such. You can also ask them if they have plans to get married and have children anytime soon. This actually provides you leeway, in case you need to hire replacement employees, should your applicants be expecting any children soon.
A popular misconception companies have is that the interview should be conducted just once. This is actually not recommended. In fact, it is recommended that the interview process be done in two stages, at the very least. The first stage should be a short one, just of the technical kind. In this stage, you are just out to know whether or not an applicant has the required technical skills for the position. The applicants who can perform the job tasks successfully then move on to the second stage. In this stage, you should then try to feel out the applicant, if he or she would indeed fit in the work setting. Not all applicants here would fit right in the office setting, you know. You need to feel out the attitude and the social skills of the applicants. Try to see if the applicant has what it takes to mingle well with his or her fellow workers. This should be treated with equal importance as well.