By Troy Dickson
With regards to hiring someone to work for you, you have to focus on employing the right person. The key word you need to circle in the previous sentence is the word 'right.' When you employ someone, you have to make sure you hire someone who believes in your vision. You need to hire someone who believes in what you are trying to do. You have to hire someone who believes in what you are trying to build. Lastly, you have to hire someone who believes in you and how you choose to operate your own business.
When hiring people, you need to get to know them. I never suggest you employ somebody straight out. Have them participate in a volunteer position, or have them conduct smaller independent tasks before you consider approaching them regarding fulfilling a position for your business. Additionally, it's my policy that anyone who wants to work for me needs to fill out a work-for-hire agreement and a confidentiality agreement. The reason is that you're building a business, and a reputation, so the last thing you need is someone who you let in that inner circle who doesn't respect that position.
Additionally, my cousin, Davy Tyburski and I agree that you should only hire employees after you have them complete a series of tasks in order to be considered for application. For instance, if you run an ad in the paper, you should ask them to complete at least three tasks. Within the ad, you could tell them to download an application from a website. Then, advise them to type the documents to completion. The third task could be to fax the application to a fax number.
What you might find is that some people will not apply as a series of three things is too much to ask of them! Furthermore, others won't be able to download the document, or they will handwrite in the information instead of typing it. Others will email it to the contact address instead of faxing it to the number suggested. It is ironically funny how difficult these requests can be for some people. Therefore, it's easy to overlook their applications and move on to the applicant who can follow directions all by themselves.
Our thought is if the potential candidate can't handle a simple series of 3, then they're not likely to be able to complete other more challenging tasks. By asking them to do these steps, you will find that the potential candidates that are not worth looking at will exclude themselves because three was too much effort for them. Others may have attempted to complete the task, but they forgot to do one step, or couldn't fulfill the expectations in the time frame. Either way, you will never know as their application never crosses your desk. Time wasters avoided! Once people complete the 3 tasks, then they are worth considering for the second level of the hiring process.
When hiring people, you need to get to know them. I never suggest you employ somebody straight out. Have them participate in a volunteer position, or have them conduct smaller independent tasks before you consider approaching them regarding fulfilling a position for your business. Additionally, it's my policy that anyone who wants to work for me needs to fill out a work-for-hire agreement and a confidentiality agreement. The reason is that you're building a business, and a reputation, so the last thing you need is someone who you let in that inner circle who doesn't respect that position.
Additionally, my cousin, Davy Tyburski and I agree that you should only hire employees after you have them complete a series of tasks in order to be considered for application. For instance, if you run an ad in the paper, you should ask them to complete at least three tasks. Within the ad, you could tell them to download an application from a website. Then, advise them to type the documents to completion. The third task could be to fax the application to a fax number.
What you might find is that some people will not apply as a series of three things is too much to ask of them! Furthermore, others won't be able to download the document, or they will handwrite in the information instead of typing it. Others will email it to the contact address instead of faxing it to the number suggested. It is ironically funny how difficult these requests can be for some people. Therefore, it's easy to overlook their applications and move on to the applicant who can follow directions all by themselves.
Our thought is if the potential candidate can't handle a simple series of 3, then they're not likely to be able to complete other more challenging tasks. By asking them to do these steps, you will find that the potential candidates that are not worth looking at will exclude themselves because three was too much effort for them. Others may have attempted to complete the task, but they forgot to do one step, or couldn't fulfill the expectations in the time frame. Either way, you will never know as their application never crosses your desk. Time wasters avoided! Once people complete the 3 tasks, then they are worth considering for the second level of the hiring process.
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