How to Surround Yourself with a High Quality Team - 5 Steps to a Recruiting Plan

Whether your company is recruiting for rapid growth, high grading or replacing people, knowing how to attract top talent is an essential business function.  

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Welcome to my series, “Conversations every business owner has with their team - and today’s topic is recruiting team members whether your business is expanding and adding more or high grade the ones you have.”  

Here are 5 essential steps to the recruiting process to save you time and money while ensuring a great fit for your company.

1. Define the position - skills, competencies, passion level as well as the cultural fit with your vision, mission and values
2. Attract a large pool of applicants.  In today's job environment there are nearly 90 applicants per job with a well written and placed advertisement
3. Design the recruiting process that mimics the qualities you want completed.  With a large number of applicants, you can manage the process by having applicants demonstrate their competencies and show their desire to go the "extra mile."  Allow your applicants to de-select themselves based on the initial advertisement and instructions given throughout your process
4. Allow the applicants to de-select themselves by not following your instructions.  When they deselect naturally, you’ll be left with a more manageable number.  From this remaining group, high grade again and invite several for a group interview with you and your team.  The group interview is a multi-hour session where in the first half you and your team share information about your company, the position and your expectations.  Inform them that during the second half the applicants will step-up and perform many of the essential job required tasks to your team.  Many will deselect themselves and those remaining are demonstrating their desire to earn their way onto your team.  
5. After the group interview, reassemble your team and critique the new people interviewed against your hiring criteria for skills, competencies, passion level and cultural fit.  Prioritize and select the one or two you will make an offer.

These 5 recruiting steps yield a higher probability of hiring the right person the first time, concentrates your team’s time efficiently and accelerates the new team member’s “on boarding” time to productivity.  

If you're adding team members this quarter then give me a call and let's discuss how to make this process work for you.  

Call me at ph:  972 709 6776 or email:  StephenMarino@ActionCOACH.com  

And let’s surround you with the high quality team you deserve…