Increase Hiring Effectiveness

Given the current economic situation and rising unemployment numbers, if you are an organization that is hiring at the moment, you no doubt are experiencing a HUGE challenge.  On average, companies are receiving 500 - 1000 resumes each day a job advertisement runs - you are likely to get 3,500 to 7,000 resumes for one job opening if you run that ad for a week.  And to make matters even more challenging, 30% of people looking for work have applied for 50 or more jobs (which means they are looking for any job they can get whether they have the right mix of hard skills and personal attributes you need.)  Let us help you sift through your job applicants.  

Hiring Opportunities in the Current Economic Climate

With the severe economic downturn and the continuing high unemployment, many individuals continue to look for work.  While distressing for job seekers, this is great news for the businesses that are seeking ways to hire top talent.  2011 represents a huge opportunity to hire talented people.

Hiring Challenges - Beware of the Talent Glut

There will be an excess of talented people looking for work. Remember that not all of them will be right for your organization. Just because they have certain industry experience, skills and knowledge, doesn't mean you should hire them.  Employers often hire a person, based on his or her current skills and knowledge.  Even more often, employers end up firing an employee, due to poor 'fit' which shows up as poor attitudes, behaviors and lack of motivation.

Will a job candidate raise the bar in your company?

Avoid any well-intentioned urge to hire an unemployed friend or family member out of the goodness of your heart if that person does not have the qualifications necessary to contribute to your organization's success. There are few things more uncomfortable, even heartbreaking, than having to fire someone you care about when things don't work out.

Creating an environment that will support success means hiring people who are going to keep your company afloat today and on the competitive edge for future success.

Resumes and Interview Alone = Poor Hiring Decisions

If we only look at the knowledge and hard skills from a resume and an interview, we miss out on information that will tell us why a job candidate performed a job, how they will behave on the job, and will they have the soft skills that are necessary for success in this job. By missing these factors, we rely on our bias to make decisions and often make poor hiring decisions that result in costly turnover.  With no system of objective measurement, most people hired in the interview process are hired by the heart, not the head. Personal bias is interjected, and poor hiring decisions are made. The result:  Often employers hire for skills, only to fire for attitude.

Business Success Tools:

Our Patented 3-Step Job Benchmarking Process

Putting the right person in the right job is crucial to your company's success.  Business Success Tools uses a 3-step job benchmarking process that provides the structure and tools necessary to improve hiring success.

#1 - Benchmark jobs, not people - Because we want to make sure the talent the job requires matches the talent the person has to offer, we benchmark jobs.  After all, we may find that those employees you thought were A players, are actually C players when we compare them to what the job actually calls for.

#2 - Assess the job candidates using a suite of candidate assessment tools - We measure the exact same talent and performance factors for each job candidate as those identified as most important during the job benchmarking step.  This multi-dimensional view identifies a job candidate's behaviors, driving values and motivators, as well as a hierarchy of over 75 key performance competencies.

#3 - Match the most talented job candidates to the job's requirements, as defined by the job benchmark.  Matching the best talent to the needs of the job helps us remove bias and guesswork during the hiring process.

Business Success Tools - contact us and let us know what you need.  Job benchmarking and candidate assessment tools are powerful tools to support you in making more informed hiring and succession decisions quickly and effectively.