Hiring? Here’s How to Find the Right Employee

Undeniably, hiring and finding the kind of candidate that will be the perfect fit for your business takes a lot of work. Often weeks of screening resumes, filtering out the ones that doesn’t work, and, of course, starting the dreaded interviewing process.

Being able to find the kind of star candidate that will drive your business forward is so important, though, and most businesses put in this work happily just so that they can find one or two that will stick with them for a while.

The problem is, of course, when they’ve put in so many hours of work just to find that the employee wasn’t a good fit after all – and so the process begins all over again.

Here is a handful of ways to avoid this so that your business can get what it deserves; a hard-working candidate with excellent skills who believes in the company.

First: Start with your company culture

Finding the kind of person that will fit right in with your company means, of course, that they need to be a great match for the company culture.

What might have been right for your competitors is not necessarily right for you, after all, and nobody knows the culture of your company as well as you do so take some time to consider the type of person you’d like to take onboard.

How will they fit in with the existing culture, how can they contribute to it, and would they be able to change it for the better if they stay for a while?

Another way to make your existing team set the standard for the new one is to ask for some help from your top-performing employee. He or she could join in during the interviewing process, for example, as it will be a bit easier to spot the right one when you have a second opinion.

Check out this article on artificial intelligence for recruiting as well, by the way, to make it even easier for you.

Next: Ask around to find the right one

A good point to keep in mind is that the people you’ve already taken onboard may know someone who can benefit your company. Good people know good people, as they say, and you should take advantage of their network first.

It’s perhaps one of the biggest reasons to why so many people find a new job through their friends and work network; ask around in the office, first of all, and you’ll be sure to find someone who will fit right in with the other team members.

Plus, when people enjoy the work they do and look forward to coming in every morning, they tend to recommend people they know for positions in the same company.

They would, after all, not recommend a workplace they hate to someone they love so you should take it as a compliment if someone turns to you with a potential candidate for an open position.