How Do You Know What Skills to Hire For?

Before hiring anyone, you need to assess their skills. But in order to do that, you need to know what skills are required for a particular type of job. To determine the skills required, you should first do a job analysis.

1. Doing a Job Analysis

This is essentially determining the requirements of the job – the kind of personality, education, and experience needed for the job.

You need to first determine what the duties and responsibilities of the job are, the tasks involved. How the job will be carried out. What the purpose of the job is – why does it exist in the first place?

You also need to look at the job in terms of its role in the company itself. How does it fit into the overall operation? So, you are putting together a position profile – the duties of the job, its purpose, important relationships, and the essential skills and knowledge needed to perform the job.

In putting this together, you need to consult with people who know about the job. You should discuss the requirements of the position with the person who supervises the job, as well as people who are co-workers of the person who would hold the job.

Moreover, an effective way to help determine the skills needed for the job is to look at people at the company who currently hold similar jobs, especially those who are outstanding performers and talk with them about the skills that they use to do the job.

These people can also help you to assess the kinds of soft skills that would be needed in the job.

2. Two Skills to Look for

Business experts have identified a few skills that they believe to be necessary for success in any type of job. These are related more to the soft skills. Two of the most important are grit and ability to learn. These skills are important for any type of job.

Grit means perseverance and resilience, the ability to overcome challenges and obstacles and to move forward diligently toward your goals. A person’s ability to learn is also important because it is necessary for success on just about any job.

3. The Job Description

You can use the job analysis to put together a job description, outlining how this particular job fits into the overall operation of the company. It would spell out in general terms the goals of the job, its duties and responsibilities, and how the job relates to other positions in the company.

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