Ten Tips for Hiring a Winning Team

Sewells Training and Consultancy gives 10 hot tips for hiring a winning team:

1. The recruitment Process: Have a detailed job description and person specification. Follow a recruitment process that includes, as a minimum, at least two interviews, a psychometric assessment and a thorough reference check.
2. Advertisements: Advertisements to attract suitable candidates should be clear, succinct and matched to your particular needs.
3. Pattern Interviews: Pattern interviews (where all candidates are asked the same questions to a pre-planned script), based on tried and tested techniques for revealing levels of competency in key areas, how appropriate the candidate is and their likely behavioral tendencies, are a MUST.
4. Selection Criteria: Behavioral and psychometric assessments can be valuable tools in the hiring process – but not on their own. Individuals should be selected on the basis of competence, likely behavior and their character and attitude.
5. Rejection/selection Process: The recruitment process should be seen as a rejection process as much as a selection process. Don’t be tempted to pick the best of a bad bunch – you’ll pay dearly for it.
6. Telephone Interviews: Screen likely candidates with a simple, five-minute telephone interview before you decide whom to invite for a first face-to-face interview.
7. Keep Tight-lipped: At the first interview, let the candidate do the talking.
8. Development Needs Strategy: Identify natural abilities such as quickness of comprehension and aptitude for learning. Look for the development needs.
9. Role Expectation: Don’t oversell the job. Over-exceeding the expectations of an individual will lead to frustration at a later date.
10. Background/Reference Checks: These are vital and should be thorough, detailed and include employment history, financial checks, medical checks, and wherever possible, character checks.

One final tip: Always used trained staff to recruit.

Source: http://www.autorefinish.com/class/recruit/9909tips.htm