No matter the size of your business, the hiring process is a tricky task. You need employees, but you want to make sure you hire reliable people who will fit in with the rest of your company. You want to hire quickly, but efficiently. This can be even harder for newer or smaller businesses with less resources.
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Hiring Process Tips
Luckily, there are things you can do to make sure you’re taking on the right kind of people. Here are a few tips to help you when you’re hiring new team members.
1. Background Checks
A comprehensive background check is a big part of any hiring process, but it can be difficult or even expensive to get results in a timely manner. The good news is that there are many online services that can help with this task, especially for individuals or small businesses.
2. Consider Blind Resume Reads
Unfortunately, everyone has biases. These opinions can cause well-qualified candidates to lose out on a job.
A blind resume read is when you don’t know the candidate’s name; instead, you make a decision based on their qualifications. This strategy is good for both employers and potential employees. By minimizing the chance for unconscious bias, you may find one of the best possible people for the job.
3. Set Up an Interview Structure
It’s custom to approach interviews as a “let the chips fall where they may” situation, but it doesn’t have to be. If you come into every interview with a certain set of questions, you will have a better way to compare candidates by considering how they answer the same questions. You should do this even when hiring part-time employees since everyone in your company will represent your brand.
An interview is a way for you to meet the candidates, but also get a feel for how they are prepared to answer surprise questions. Take this opportunity to test how they react under pressure.
4. Keep Descriptions Realistic
A job description shouldn’t make the job seem impossible and out of reach, but it also shouldn’t sound like a sales pitch. If you focus too much on the potential benefits, you miss the true purpose of a job description in the first place.
Don’t get too detailed. You should tell potential applicants the necessary qualifications and basic duties of the job. Including a general pay range is also beneficial for employers.
Tell people what to expect and make it sound appealing, but don’t try to “sell” the job or make the description too long.
5 – Set Up a Post-Hire Questionnaire
After you have tried some of these tactics and you bring in a new hire, consider giving them a post-hire questionnaire. Ask them how their application and interview processes were, and what they liked or was helpful, as well as anything that they think could be improved.
Take suggestions and comments with a grain of salt but consider what they have to say. You never know – you could completely revolutionize your own hiring process with just a little input from a firsthand source.
Bottom Line
Hiring is a process for both the employer and potential employee. We have all had good and bad application and interview experiences.
With these tips, you can easily stay away from bad hiring experiences and trust the hiring process more. Keep descriptions and applications short and simple, try to eliminate biases where you can, and consider all points of view when it comes to revamping your hiring process.
Don’t make bringing in new team members any harder than it has to be. With the right tools and ideas, finding and bringing in new employees will be a relatively painless process.
