Tuesday, May 31, 2011

The Better Business Bureau Offers Tips for Recruiting New Employees

Even in today’s digital age, most customers have contact with business’s employees, even if only through emails or telephone conversations. Recruiting the right people to represent your company is a difficult but very important task that impacts your reputation and service. The Better Business Bureau offers tips on recruiting the right person to join your team:

• Devise a systematic interview process to make sure that you maximize your time and probability of hiring the right person.

• Keep personality and character traits in mind when determining whether candidates are a right fit for your business.

• Ask behavioral based questions; for example, describe a situation where you were under immense pressure, and how you dealt with this.

• Take a candidate out for coffee or lunch; this will ease the pressure of being in an interview setting giving you better insight into their personality.

• Ask questions about their future; for example, where would they like to be in five years. This gives the candidate the opportunity to articulate their professional and personal ambitions for the future.

• Ask them a question such as why they would be a good at your company; this should open the candidate up to explain how their qualifications and goals complement your company's vision and values.

• Ask open ended questions to learn about the candidate’s communication style.

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