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How To Increase Your Hiring Success Rate To 95%
September 24, 2024
Pretty much every employer has made a bad hiring decision.
Is there a secret to getting it right first time? Is it witchcraft or a dark art or must the “Force” be used?
Many employers use their gut feeling when hiring. Should we ignore our gut? No, but nor should we ignore science and analytics when it can help us to make the right choice.
How many of us have been fooled by a great CV and a charm offensive at interview? The candidate has the skill and experience to do the job, but they don’t work out and turn into an expensive mistake.
How can this be prevented?
I swear by our 3 pillars of successful hiring:
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Skills & Ability to do the job
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Natural energy and behaviour using the platform Contribution Compass (e.g. introvert/extrovert)
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Culture & values alignment
If you can align a candidate with all 3 pillars it makes it very difficult for someone to leave because things just work – they have the skill, the naturally aligned behaviour and the culture and values that fit with your organisation.
So if you’re not doing this in your hiring process, start doing it NOW.
Next step?
The first thing to do is to complete the free Contribution Identifier survey to understand what kind of natural energy you need in the role itself, so you know how someone is balanced and how a high performer would contribute. If you have more than 1 decision maker in the hiring process, get everyone to complete this.
Once you have the results from this it’s time to profile the candidate to see how close your match is. This will give you an idea how aligned they are to the role, or, how much of a challenge they will find it settling in.
If you’re looking to hire a Veteran manager today, please email me gbrown@forcesrecruitment.co.uk
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