{"id":26466,"date":"2021-02-03T09:34:10","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T13:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=26466"},"modified":"2021-02-14T23:40:40","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T03:40:40","slug":"how-to-hire-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/how-to-hire-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Hire Employees: The Best Tips and Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Do you want to know <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/how-to-hire-employees-2\/\">how to hire employees<\/a>? Why is it so important to hire great employees?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Managers need to know <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/hiring-plan-2\/\">how to hire<\/a> employees. In order to have a successful company, you need to hire employees that fit with your company and your goals.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep reading to find out how to hire employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>How to Hire Employees<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Another important part of being a manager is learning how to hire employees. As a manager, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/how-to-hire-new-employees\/\">hiring new employees<\/a> and retaining existing employees who have decided to quit is a key part of your role. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Hiring<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>So how can you learn how to hire employees? First, <strong>acknowledge that hiring is hard.<\/strong> In activity #8, you learned how hard it is to assess the performance of people who already work closely with you even when you have output measures, specific examples of their work, and a confirmed environment. Evaluating the potential performance of a stranger is even more difficult. There\u2019s no foolproof way to hire\u2014even if you follow all of Grove\u2019s recommendations below, you might still end up with a bad hire.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When hiring for a position, your goals should be to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Choose a top performer<\/li><li>Teach her about yourself and the organization<\/li><li>Figure out if you\u2019re a good fit<\/li><li>Get her excited about the job<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>You have two resources with which to do this for learning how to hire employees:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Resource #1: The Interview<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>You have some resources for how to hire employees. <strong>The goal of interviewing is to predict how an applicant would do at your company based on her self-assessment of her own abilities.<\/strong> There\u2019s no way to avoid using self-assessment at the interview stage because you don\u2019t have access to objective measures of skills, performance, and other factors. 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Ask about issues at her current job and what she\u2019s learned from past mistakes.<\/li><li><strong>Values.<\/strong> Ask why she wants a new job and why she feels your company is a good fit. Her values will tell you how she will approach the job. (Shortform example: If you run a non-profit that rescues animals, and the applicant values humane treatment of animals, she\u2019ll likely approach her job with a lot of passion and motivation.)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tip #2: <\/strong>Listen. The applicant should talk for 80% of the time so you can learn as much about them as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tip #3: <\/strong>If the applicant gets off topic, interrupt her and tell her you\u2019d like to change the subject. You only have an hour or two\u2014use it wisely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tip #4: <\/strong>Use the same language and make sure you both understand the meaning of any jargon you use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tip #5: <\/strong>Ask the applicant to consider a hypothetical situation. For example, when Grove was interviewing an accountant, he asked him to determine the cost of a finished wafer. Grove explained the wafer manufacturing process and answered questions about the process, since the accountant didn\u2019t know how it worked, and the accountant worked out how to determine the price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tip #6: <\/strong>Ask the applicant if she has questions. This will show you if she prepared for the interview, if she researched the company, and what she\u2019s looking for in a company.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tip #7: <\/strong>Don\u2019t use tricks\u2014for example, giving applicants a broken chair and then seeing how they react when they fall. 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