When hiring employees some employers tend to make mistakes. As a result of those mistakes, you see different people walking into their offices like a revolving door. These mistakes can greatly put a hurting on your business’s bottom line and overall morale. The candidate experience is something many organizations overlook during the hiring process. It’s an experience that needs to be treated with a lot of care. Not only do hiring managers need to be mindful of the candidate’s experience, but they should also be mindful of their own. Many hiring managers are not aware of their own biases or potential pitfalls. While you’re hiring new candidates be sure to avoid these common hiring pitfalls.
Pitfall #1 – Don’t allow ‘quick hires’
Rushed work never turns out as good as work that’s carefully planned. If you think about how fast hiring the wrong person will affect your business your likely going to take a second and regroup. When you do a quick hire you’re risking the possibility of hiring a bad hire. Ultimately resulting in spending extra time training, costing your business time and money, and leading to a lot of frustration. The process of hiring may look like a long a lengthy process but if you think about it as a time to thoroughly analyze the given candidates, it is all worth it in the end. Your business is worth the investment in time and it deserves quality employees.
Pitfall #2 – You’re conducting the hiring process alone
Do you catch yourself doing the hiring process all by yourself? Talk about stress, that’s got to be a pretty big weight on your shoulders. It’s not such a bad idea to allow someone to help you hire all these candidates. You have to read through hundreds of resumes, do background checks, and narrow down the best candidates for interviewing plus many other tasks. That can be a lot for just one person to handle. In this case, two or more is better than one. Now some people are afraid to ask for help. Even though you may be apprehensive about asking, it has never killed anyone. Invite someone to help you conduct the interview and help you pick the candidate. It’s better for your business in the long run. There’s always someone to help you. Remember there’s no “I” in the word team; in fact, teamwork makes the dream work.
Pitfall #3 – Have a clear job description
The job description is one of the many places where the candidate and the interviewer have the biggest misunderstanding. Have you ever been on a job interview and the job description you read didn’t match up to what the interviewer was saying? The only solution to this problem is to make sure all the job descriptions are accurate for each position. When a candidate applies for any job, the job description is in fact the first thing that they read. A qualified candidate wouldn’t apply for a job if they know it’s not a good fit for them. Candidates don’t want to waste their time or yours by interviewing for a job that they were misled about. In your job descriptions make sure that each one is very detailed and gives applicants the right idea. Briefly describe all tasks that are to be expected that way candidates already know what to expect before onboarding. If not, you’re creating an open invitation to decrease employee productivity, dissatisfaction, and confusion.
The best thing you can do for your business is to hire the right candidates. By hiring the right people you allow your business to go to places it’s never been before. So, are you guilty of falling into any of these pitfalls? If so, put the experts on your side and by experts, we mean us. We even have an entire page dedicated to sharing available job openings. Contact us today to get started!
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