Who you Hire Today Will Determine You're Future of Tomorrow
Today's companies are suffering from poor hiring practices of talent. Companies are more interested in hiring someone from a resume versus the person themselves. It all starts with the talent you hire for your HR Department and Talent Acquisition.
The managers in charge of Talent Acquisition need to be competent and need to be more resourceful in today's war for talent. They need to do much more than just going through the motions of a hiring process.
The other talent that seems to be a lost art is doing references on the individual. If it is an impact position for your company, you need to take special attention to this matter. References should not be done by your Admin Assistants. They should be done by either the hiring managers or someone that is well versed in knowing how to ask the right questions.
Asking the right questions is the key to hiring top talent. Too many companies either don't take much stock into this and just ask the basic questions re: How do they get along with their fellow employees? or just don't understand the potential for disaster by hiring a bad employee.
The other area they need to be aware of is that today's middle tier in companies is disappearing. What I mean by that is that you have your managers who are baby boomers and maybe retiring in a few years and you have your newbies that really aren't that impact employee who have the potential to be your future leaders.
Similar to the vetting process that John McCain did on Sarah Palin. Companies cannot afford to continue making very bad hires. In fact one CEO of a fortune 500 company told me the biggest mistake his VP of HR could make, and something he would not tolerate is for that person to make a very bad hire.
Companies wake up! With the economy in the toilet you need to really make good decisions on hiring based on how these people will fare in the company's environment. It all starts with the quality of your hiring process which needs to result in hiring the best person for that particular company not based on pedigree.
