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3 Interview Tips To Ensure New Hire Success
3 Interview Tips To Ensure New Hire Success
is in place, which means that hiring leaders should have processes and policies in place to ensure they’re
Hiring the right employees is important for numerous reasons. Making calls like this is crucial. It affects
morale, culture and productivity. Not to mention the cost of replacing any given employee can be
significant. Josh Bersin, of Bersin by Deloitte, wrote about the various challenges that face employers who
He explained that tenured employees offer companies more value than those who cycle in and out. In
addition, Bersin listed the various costs that companies with high turnover rates face:
The loss of productivity. Bersin estimates it takes new hires between one and two years to reach
All of this seems to add up to one thing: High turnover rates are not good for a company, which means
hiring right the first time is important. Job candidates should be considered as potential long-term
employees rather than stop gaps. This can improve culture and engagement while simultaneously cutting
costs.
Culture is built from the top down, which makes it important for leadership to be involved in the hiring
process, Entrepreneur noted. It is a company’s executives that ultimately decide how the company should
be run, what sort of values matter most and where to focus. Leadership’s input into who should, or
Sometimes interviews are filled with questions that require only yes or no answers. That won’t tell you
anything about the candidate. Instead use questions to probe deeper, long-form responses from job
candidates, Inc. suggested. The goal is to work around pre-rehearsed answers to get to the person behind
the resume and talking points. This will show you whether he or she is really a good fit for the company.
Inc. listed four “super elements” that interviewers should get to the bottom of:
1. Attitude: An individual’s attitude regarding work stays relatively the same over time, meaning a
positive attitude about one job probably means the same outlook toward others. Try to
2.Culture fit: Leadership decides on culture and employees hold it together. Interviewers should
look for people who fit in with the culture, rather than forcing them into it after the hire.
3.Sense of accountability: Does the person have direct control over his or her environment? If
so this is a good sign. “Locus of control” – internal versus external – is considered one of the
4.Past successes: Whether a candidate has certain past job successes will indicate whether these
achievements will continue in the future. Ask about how he or she succeeded at tasks the
Learning more about each of those four elements will help interviewers determine how the job candidate