People and Organisation

How to find and hire Great Employees?

20.02.2018 at 19:04 h / Edited 06.07.2018 at 20:04 h
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Nikolay IT Project Manager und Coach

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The challenge is to find the best possible employee for your business. 

In todays busy world and economy, finding and hiring the best possible people is critical for every business.

In the past 6 months we were looking for a person to take over and support the development of additional distributions channels in our company. What would be the best combination of the skills needed, like integrity, motivation, talent, performance, knowledge and experiance? Should one be ready to sacrify one or another of the skills to get more of the other one, or the perfect combination is the always the best choice? 

For now we have concentrated on the integrity and motivation and are ready to carify a bit experiance. We will see how i works out.

But we will be very happy to find a proper input regarding such cases.

Greets

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Georgi Country Manager Bulgaria at Documaster

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Hi Nikolay,

Only you can define what a perfect candidate is. In case you need structure in the process, I would recommend to define the employment model you want to pursue first -take a look at this summary (research by Diane Burton):

https://rishidean.com/2010/10/23/startup-employment-design-patterns/

This will help you identify whether you want to be surrounded by stars, or a close community of friends that are not necessarily the top performers in the industry. Please note that all models have their pros and cons.

A good next step would be to identify some "success drivers" - traits that are important for you and the team (e.g. adaptiveness to change; ability to create and maintain lasting relationships; ability to follow through plans, etc.)

After that, you have to start looking for these traits in your candidates. The best way is to look for hints in their previous experience (not necessarily work-related).

Please also take a look at this research - it will help you create a selection process that will yield the best results:

http://ghsmart.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/human_capital.pdf

Hope that helps.

Nick Business owner

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Hi Nikolay, 

that challenge is never out of fashion. Before COVID I had similar thoughts and I needed to find a good solution to test. 

 

I found Mirel Baila's answer quite useful.

https://consulthon.com/challenge/289/how-to-motivate-and-keep-good-employees-in-the-company

 

My company has its specifics, so I needed to tailor some areas, however overall I am happy with the outcome. There are some insights that you will be surprised to find. I will even implement the cards in the interview process and regularly do a workshop for the current employees (especially valuable when you do not want to lose your good employees).

 

Hope that helps.

 

ATB, 

Nick

 

Marieta Lean Consultant Legal Sector

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Hi Nikolay, 

I assume you know what you want to achieve when you hire for a particular position. This means you have a plan if not-design a plan. In your plan you need to be really clear and to visualise who does what. Write down your plan for everyone to see and to measure your progress against afterwards. This includes all the granular details about who needs to do what tasks and when. Establish clear metrics to make certain that you are following your plan. Explain to all team members how they will work for goals that you and your company are excited about and explain how their tasks connect to the Company's goals. 

In my experience, I saw it more powerful to build a story and present the big picture to the potential employee, not to keep it only on the job description and job responsibilities.

I like a line by Ray Dalio:

'An organization is a machine consisting of two major parts: culture and people.'

Again, Ray Dalio is giving an idea to value people based on 3 C's:

  • character,
  • common sense and
  • creativity.

I cannot agree less with the above because you will gain a lot if you hire team members smarter than you and those with more ideas. I really believe that you want to see that you can share your life with an employee, not only how suitable his/her CV is for the position.

To sum up, at any interview or even with your current employees- you can ask each one of them the question:

  • Have you ever helped somebody in your previous company? How? Why?

You can make a nice analysis of people's answers and reactions.

Hope that helps, 

Marieta

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