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Stan Dubin
The Hiring Tips podcast will help you make better hiring decisions. The tips are 3-4 minutes long. Topics include:
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What questions to ask during the hiring interview
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How to evaluate the person in front of you
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Employee motivation, benefits and compensation
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How to assess a prospective employee's skills
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and other subjects to help you with the hiring process.
The Hiring Tips podcast is brought to you by The Employee Testing Center. For those making hiring decisions, take our complimentary employee test at GetBetterStaff.com.
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Kathleen Steffey comes on for Part Two of the subject of recruiting. Here are some links to reach her:
Her home page.
Her page of her key staff and their qualifications to help you fill important positions.
Her LinkedIn page.
Kathleen Steffey has been recruiting for 25 years and 18 years ago started her own recruiting business. Here are some links to find out more about her, her team and if recruiting is a good option for you.
Her home page.
Her page of her key staff and their qualifications to help you fill important positions.
Her LinkedIn page.
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An excellent checklist that Balance Careers provides.
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One of the key reasons, if not the key reason, for the hiring interview is to gain real insights into your applicant.
Asking your applicant to turn the tables on you could be one good way of gaining these important insights.
This is a great question for those applying for a position that involves regular contact with customers.
But instead of having your applicant simply answer it, why not see how they would actually handle it.
Your applicant’s answers will tell you a great deal about their future expectations with you.
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This is a question that just might cut through the canned (prepared) responses and get some good insights into your applicant.
Find out what your bright-eyed prospects would do to get out of the starting gate and you'll likely gain some welcome insights.
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A smiling candidate with a good looking résumé is a good start. Let's see what she can do.
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Many of us are experiencing a revolving door when it comes to hiring new people. We read through the résumés, we conduct what we consider are reasonably thorough interviews and we may even check some references.
You could use the 1 - 10 ranking scale to gain some interesting insights into your candidates.
There are a number of questions employers ask prospective employees, but a very key question to ask is:
"In your previous positions what did you PRODUCE?"
Yes, you should be interested in what positions the person held previously. But you want to narrow in on what the person produced.
While watching a bit of news on TV the other day, a short segment was done for job hunters. The theme of the segment was: “what not to say in the interview.”
Let’s take a look at a few of these:
“I’m really nervous.”
What if your candidate isn't a good fit for you but would be a great asset for another company?
What if you you knew of a specific company where this would apply?
Taking this one step further, what if this specific company was your competition?
Should you make the effort to refer this candidate? Should you contact the other company and let them know about this prospect?
I would say: yes and yes.
And yes, even with your competition!
Let’s say you’re hiring someone for the Office Manager position. What are some of the routine problems for this position?
Gather together a list of at least three of these and then ask your applicant how she would solve them.
Working with Millennials may be challenging for some. Invigorating for others. Here is a tip to help you in the hiring process.
In the previous Hiring the Salesperson tips, we covered preparation, motivation, prospecting, sales technique and closing.
In this tip, let’s discuss the salesperson who has sold something very different from you’re selling.
This Will Rogers quote can most definitely be applied to those giving hiring interviews.
Of course this is something you know, but how often do we see a fabulous résumé and then omit doing a thorough interview as we believe we’ve got the right person?
Another way to find out more about your prospective employee is to perform a Google search.
The previous tip discussed having the applicant work for a full day (or even several days) without assurances of the job. This tip is similar but with a couple of key differences.
Have your applicant work for an entire month on a conditional basis. He can leave at the end. You can let him go.
One idea that has been found successful is to have him work for a full day. Or maybe even several days. Give him a fairly quick understanding of what's needed and get him rolling.
In the first four tips on Hiring the Salesperson, we covered preparation, motivation, prospecting and sales technique.
In this tip, let's tackle the Holy Grail of sales: closing!
Let’s say you’re hiring an Office Manager.
Fred has shown up for his interview and has Office Manager experience.
How do we know how experienced Fred is?
Well, we can take Fred for a tour of the office. Here’s how it could go:
Most people have a pretty good idea of what’s expected of them. They’ve had some training for their position and ideally some apprenticing.
This tip could even include those who have considerable training, for example health care professionals or software programmers.
The question is, “What did you do when you didn’t know what to do?”
Today I read an interesting quote in a hiring book:
“Companies are notorious for hiring based on skill and ability, and firing based on fit.”
Certainly with regards to skill positions, I would agree with this.
What about the prospective staff who look and sound great but a month or so down the road quit unexpectedly or compel the owner to fire them?
If your candidate is very goal-oriented, it would be helpful to know how this particular job fits in with his goals.
When two employees near you were going back and forth in a heated argument, did you take steps to break it up? Or were you more inclined to let them sort it out?
Have you ever had a job interview with someone and you came out of it thinking:
She just rubbed me the wrong way.
From the perspective of making a hiring decision, what exactly does that mean?
I see the hiring process as pieces of a pie. Each piece can help you make a better decision.
Do you have a clear statement of the purpose of each position in your company? If not, take a bit of time and put this together.
“George, what was a typical work day like?” George might ask for clarification and you could say, “Well, I’d like to get an idea what you did in your previous job but from a different perspective than what is on your résumé.
We owners understand that the work day doesn’t end at 5 or 6 o’clock. If several key things still need to get done, it is often the business owner who gets them done. If a customer calls after hours, the impulse is strongest with us to get back to him and not let it wait until the next day.
All of us at one time another have had disagreements with our boss. So what happens when we are asked to do something we feel we shouldn’t have to do?
This is the classic hiring question. But it doesn’t always get the answer you’re looking for, which is simply an unrehearsed answer.
There are a multitude of different sales approaches and techniques. Some of them may be just right for your business, some may not. Some actually may inhibit sales if used in your business.
In this tip, we'll look at what has become a somewhat controversial subject in the sales world: prospecting.
In Part One we discussed how prepared the salesperson was for the interview with you. In this part, we're going to take a different look at our salesperson's qualifications.
The first thing you can do is find out how prepared your sales candidate is for his interview with you.
Now that’s an interesting question. As if not one of us hasn’t hired someone at one point or another that we ended up not needing. And that’s understandable. In this tip, however, let me make the question a bit more precise: Would you hire someone that you knew at the time of hiring that you didn’t need?
This is a superb area to discuss in an interview. Let's first ask our candidate what "stress" means to him.
If your company has a story, especially a compelling story, make it known to your applicants and find out how they can connect with it.
It's not unusual for people to get bored "on the job" but I think it would be a good idea to find out how bored your candidate gets and how they deal with it.
Many of us have interviewed the person who wanted us to feel sorry for them. They wanted to use this line of sympathy as a reason to be hired.
Asking your candidate to describe herself in just one word could provide a very interesting insight.
Some people spend a good deal of time criticizing those around them. This person will often tell us "it's for their own good" or "it's constructive criticism." They want you to believe they are doing you a favor by pointing out the faults of others.
You're sitting down with Matt who is interested in the stock clerk position or the telemarketing position or perhaps the Office Manager position. You've read over his résumé and you've asked him several questions in the interview. And you've decided Matt's a decent candidate for the position. Then let's cut right to the chase with: "Matt, how can you benefit this company?"
Ask your applicant how well she got along with others at her last job (or last several jobs). The first responses will usually be “social responses” and they’ll tell you they got along just fine. Do a bit of digging on this.
Let’s say you have a pressing need to fill a position. You put the word out, interview some applicants, and you hire the person most suited for the job. You then give this new hire an explanation of what’s needed and wanted and send them off to their work area. What are your expectations of this person?
Some of us are very close with our staff or a number of them. And some of us choose to have a strictly professional relationship. If you are inclined to developing friendships with some (or all) of your staff, then this fact should also be considered during the hiring process. What if you have a great prospect in front of you, the right skills, superb test results, a real depth of experience at the position but they rub you the wrong way? What if you cannot see ever inviting them on a camping trip?
We all like to recall the good times. And we'd much rather talk about our accomplishments than our failures. From a hiring perspective, though, it would be very helpful to find out HOW our candidates handled the tough times. Did they cave? Did they relish the challenge? Let's find out.
We've heard the term "fit" for quite awhile now. Is someone a good fit for your company? Will they fit in? Well, it's worth a fast definition: fit: suitable or good enough for something; similar enough to belong to a group That second definition is interesting: Are you looking for someone who is similar enough to belong to your group?
Have you ever made a new hire of an exceptional talent who felt he had the right to make wholesale changes? And then did so.
With so many possible qualities to sift through in a candidate, how much importance should we give humility?
If hired, will this person you're interviewing improve the people around him? And what exactly does that mean? In what way would or should the people around him be improved?
Let’s say you’ve got just the right people working for you. Every key position is filled with someone that you trust and competence abounds! Even the less key positions are filled. Now you can put all of your attention on the other areas of your business. If something comes up, if someone wants to move [...]
Do you need spiky people in your company? Could you use an outlier or two? Someone who is not necessarily going to toe the company line and do only what he is told to do?
There is a certain ebb and flow to the hiring process. You are selling the business to the prospective employee and she is selling herself to you. If that equation gets too one-sided, and you are spending most of the time doing the selling, then two things can happen:
What do we know about moms that would make them a good choice in the workplace? Let’s take a look.
There are essentially two sides to the hiring coin. Side One is the applicant who wants to impress the employer and land that job. Side Two is the employer who wants to impress the applicant and gain his agreement to come on board. Now these two sides may not both be operating at full steam [...]
A game is played to win. In order to win, individual players blend their skills and their actions with other players. Teams made up of JUST individuals, even those highly talented, often fail against teams composed of people who work hard on working together.
In an earlier hiring tip I mentioned a trip I made to my local Barnes and Nobles bookstore. While there, I looked over the books that were available for both employers and prospective employees. The number of books available on just the subject of résumés was staggering. And, for the most part, these were current [...]
During the interview process, there are many questions you can ask. The Hiring Tips have provided a good number of these. Here’s another one you’ll find interesting: “Under what circumstances did you ignore or bend company policy?” Your applicant–we’ll call him Frank–may answer, “Oh, there were no circumstances where I did such a thing.” A [...]
When it comes to hiring and holding onto your staff, especially top-notch staff, perks can be a prime consideration.
There are many types of employee tests available: -- Personality Tests -- Intelligence Tests -- Aptitude Tests
In an earlier Hiring Tip, I mentioned being in a Barnes and Nobles bookstore. I was checking out the "hiring" section and I noticed there were 80-100 different books on this important subject.
Integrity is a very interesting concept. I may be old-fashioned, but I believe the subject has taken quite a few hits over the last few decades. I also believe the concepts of right and wrong have been slowly but surely stripped out of our children's education, but that's a discussion for another time and another place.
In an earlier tip, we discussed the merits of hiring a veteran. In this tip, I'd like to discuss another "group" that could be valuable to you. Athletes.
We've touched on this subject in other tips, but have not addressed it directly. Let's do so here.
We’ve all made mistakes. Some of us have made more than the next person. The focus of this tip is not on how many mistakes one applicant has made. The focus is on how did he deal with those moments in time. Let’s look at this as if there are two very different ends of [...]
When someone has left a job and is now applying for a job with you, they usually want to know exactly what the pay arrangements will be. Even someone brand new to the job market may want the full scoop on pay.
What about the person you want to hire because you know they'll be great for your business? You know they’re a perfect fit, they'll get along great with your staff, and they'll have a direct and positive impact on your bottom line. But you just can't afford him.
You're down to 2 candidates you really like. One has the right skills — the other a great attitude? Which one should you hire?
When folks work solely and only to receive a paycheck, their self-esteem is usually not very high. And just as important, their value to your team is also not so high.
Before you require certain qualities in your new staff, make sure your management style is compatible with them.
Is your applicant looking for a short term job while keeping their eye out for something better, or are they serious about staying with you for a good period of time?
Should you consider hiring a veteran in the same way that you consider anyone else? Yes…and no. With everyone you hire, you should always put them through the same steps. You should interview them, carefully review their résumé, conduct employee testing, confirm earlier employment, and anything else you routinely do. But I have a personal [...]
The phone interview is a great tool to use in the hiring process. Here are another ten questions you can use.
The "Phone Interview" is a great tool to use in the hiring process. Here are ten questions you could ask.
If you are not using phone interviews in your hiring process, here are three reasons you should.
This next tip may come across as a bit mystical to some, but let’s see what you think. if your current workplace operates at a high ethics level, you will be more likely to attract new staff who also have a very strong sense of ethics. Exploring this a bit, have you ever entered a [...]
When people apply for a job, the amount of preparation they do ahead of time ranges from none whatsoever to an enormous amount of preparation. You might find it helpful to learn what someone does to prepare for that interview with you.
Do you have a clean statement of your company's purpose? If not, take some time and put that together. Here are a couple of examples.
When you walk into a room to interview a new applicant, what is the first thing you notice? Almost always, it’s the person’s appearance, right? If the person is very well-dressed and well-groomed, that makes a very good impression, right? Of course. Let’s look at a couple of examples with Steve and Mary. Now I [...]
Did you ever have someone apply for a job and practically beg you to come through for them? If the person isn’t qualified for the position, then the decision is usually pretty straightforward. But what if you’ve gone through a group of applicants and you’ve whittled it down to two people? Both have very similar [...]
There are other types of problem-solving that we're interested in. Here are a few examples you could discuss with your applicant.
If you have key staff whose opinion you value, here's how they can help you make hiring decisions.
In this tip, let's discuss how you can clearly communicate to your applicants what you need and want.
How you word an ad should help filter the type of person who sends in a résumé or calls asking for an interview.
Most folks know that a great college education isn't by itself an overpowering reason to hire someone. But sometimes we get a bit swept away by this part of an applicant's resume. A great education can certainly be a plus, but don't let it cloud your judgment. Focus on hiring people that are going to positive contributors in your workplace.
Sometimes employees have to deal with a particular type of conflict that can come up in the workplace: The customer believes he is entitled to something but company policy does not permit it.
Asking prospective employees who they find successful or admire can often provide superb insights.
Finding out how your applicant views the future with your company can help you make a hiring decision.
Here's an interesting scenario to help you gain an insight into your prospective employee.
How much does the person want the company to succeed and how far will they go to make that happen?