- Focus on hiring only the best.
- Make sure you have a written job description.
- Don’t limit your sources for good employees.
- Avoid hiring someone who averages more than one employer every two years.
- Use a rating system so that early candidates are not forgotten in the interview process.
- Where possible, promote from within to maintain employee morale.
- A person with an extensive self-employment background is very likely to go back to self-employment as soon as possible. Hire this person as a consultant.
- Disabled workers often do a better job with greater loyalty and less absences.
- Use a temporary employment agency instead of hiring an employee in haste.
- “Over qualified” people are better than “under qualified” people.
- Have the person leaving the position interview their replacement.
- Test the skills and industry knowledge of a prospective employee. Get specific.
- Look into a potential employee’s energy levels. If you engage in more than one interview, try to do it at different times of the day.
- Look into any significant gaps in employment.
- Consider using outside recruitment agencies if you won’t follow a process.
- Use pre-employment questionnaires.
- Check an applicant’s background and all references thoroughly.
- Memorialize the terms of employment.
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