Why do organisations continually lose good people at the interview?
I and my team of expert recruitment consultants get so frustrated with some of our clients who retain us to fill their much needed vacancy as mostly the contact is someone in a role which makes them unable to find the RIGHT PERSON when this is a crucial activity for all organisations. Of course there are some really professional and skilled HR people, their only mistake is to get involved in recruiting sales and business development people. These selections should be left to the Sales Director or Sales Manager, but in our experience many of the people who get involved in recruiting are incompetent at best and a disaster at worst.
10 simple tips:-
- Write the personality profile in detail before starting the process.
- Write the job specification in detail before starting the process.
- Let the agency do the work.
- When candidates are put forward fix a date quickly, good people do not stay unemployed for long.
- Get some training in interview techniques.
- Ask the right questions, prepare a list of all the questions that should be asked at the interview.
- Get the balance right ……. do sell the vacancy but don’t oversell. Tell the truth about the company and the job.
- Always go to a second interview fast.
- If you want the person make the job offer speedily or risk losing out to the competition.
- Consider hiring attitude and training the skills.