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Why is it that many people dread hiring?
Well, the answer is actually quite simple (especially if you’ve done it before) - nightmare hiring stories, horrible candidates showing up at your office, way too time intensive and the uncertainty of whether you’ve made the right decision or not… only to find out potentially when it’s too late.
Guess you should have used a hiring assessment… or perhaps some sort of employee performance software… but at the end of the day, hiring can be a very painful task that would be most likely pawned off to someone else. But there are good reasons why you - not your assistant, intern or someone else should do it.
1. Managing Expectations:
Only you - and you alone (isn’t that part of a song?) know what it is you are looking for. That is why you should be the one who is doing the hiring. The best thing you could do is to prepare, list and plan ahead before embarking. Certainly make use of resources and tools that will make the actual hiring process easier, and there are a number of tools available that do just that - but having someone else do the work for you because of convenience is a recipe for problems.
2. Knowing The Role/Company
As we always emphasize, fit of a candidate is almost more important then hard skills these days. Meeting someone yourself and seeing how you get along, rather then the letters that proceed their last name is extremely important. Having someone walk into your office that was hired off-site and that you have never met can again spell disaster and quick firing.
3. Establishing The Mood
Hiring yourself is a great base-builder for future conversations and building team dynamic. It’s important to have a direct and transparent (where and when appropriate) relationship. By doing the hiring yourself, you’ll have the opportunity to talk openly and ensure that you can communicate expectations openly from the start.
4. If You Want It Done Right - Do It Yourself
Every have to rely on someone else to do it? Then you’ll know how frustrating that can be. Now imagine having to rely on someone to do your hiring… you get the idea. Just remember, you get out of it what you put in - so if you want something done right and to your standards - do it yourself!
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