There’s more to finding great employees than just hiring for skills. More employees leave a company because they never quite “fit” in rather than because they didn’t have the needed skills.
Follow the tips below to learn more about how you can find employees who will succeed
in your company’s corporate culture.
- Do a survey of your managers to find out what kind of personality succeeds best in your firm? Is your company a hive of activity, or are your employees more of the slow-and-steady variety? Is everyone a budding stand-up comedian, or are they quieter and more private? This will help you when it comes time to interview job candidates.
- Remember that you don’t want robots with the exact same personality working for you. But you do want to feel that anyone you hire will be able to get along with his or her colleagues and your company’s corporate “work ethic.”
- When you write job descriptions, aim to get some of the personality needed to be reflected in the description. For example, if your company or department is a hive of activity, with staff members continually looking for new ways of doing things, you’ll want to include that in your description. Write something along the lines of “…in a department filled with go-getters.”
- Consider having your top candidates take a personality test either before or after their interviews.
- During the interview, ask questions that will help ascertain if the candidate will thrive in your department’s or company’s environment. Such a question could be: What do you do to recharge when you’re stressed? (Introverts tend to want to be by themselves when they need to recharge, while extroverts want to be around people.)
We’re great at finding great people for Inland Empire companies. Arrow Staffing has been doing so for 40 years and so we’ve learned a thing or three about how to recruit, vet and place skilled and responsible workers for your temporary and direct-hire needs. Contact us today!