Tips for Recruiting the Right Candidate
Whilst technology and automation may have made some of our working practices more efficient, and productive; we still need people to make businesses run smoothly. The people you have working for your organisation, represent you and your company’s values. You need to ensure you hire the best people for the job who present your company as professional, efficient, helpful, with outstanding customer service. This article is here to help you with tips on recruiting the right candidate:
What Type of Person do You Need for Job Role?
This may sound obvious, but sometimes a person at an interview, may not have the skills you require, but may come across very well with a good personality, sense of humour and appear to be a team-player. In many instances, that may work fine. But, if you are looking for someone to fill a specific role that has particular skills, you may need to keep looking until you find this person, unless you want to invest heavily in training.
Longevity?
Does the person you are interviewing look like they have potential for the future? Whilst it is impossible to predict, do they look like they will be worthwhile to have time and money invested in them to develop their skills? Or is this just a temporary stop-gap position for them?
DBS Check
Ensure that they have completed a DBS Check, which will allow you to see if they have a clear criminal history, without any spent, or unspent convictions, cautions, warnings, reprimands, and if they are working with children or vulnerable adults, ensure that they do not appear on any Barred Lists due to violence or abuse. Having a DBS Check done at the recruitment stage, will save you hiring someone to your business, who is unsuitable and considerable risk to customers, your other staff, and the business.
Meet the Team
It can be useful as part of the interview process, if the candidate meets the team they would be working with, if successful at interview. It is a clever way of seeing whether they look like they will fit in, and it always helps to get your team’s input on the candidate too.
Listen Carefully
It is important to listen to everything a job candidate says at interview, from how they greet reception staff and cleaners (are they polite and respectful to everyone). Have they revealed some information unintentionally? Do they have a cheerful outlook if asked about their journey to the interview, or are they extremely negative? See what questions they ask about the job role; candidates should be interested enough to ask some questions. Depending on the questions they ask, may give you an indication as to what motivates them, whether it was about salary, or Annual Leave entitlements, and these are fair questions in moderation, but not in excess.
Recruiting the right staff is a tough thing to get right and can have such a significant impact on the success of your business. You want the team to gel together; always present you and the business professionally; and work hard and productively, caring about the products or services offered.
Hopefully, the above tips will help you to choose well.
