Are You Too Picky When Hiring?
Posted January 19th, 2015
If you’re having a hard time finding great workers, you’re not alone. With unemployment down and hiring up in the last part of 2014 and with an uptick in hiring expected to continue into 2015, it is getting harder and harder to find skilled and reliable workers.
But if you’re finding it difficult to find “the good ones,” it could be that you’re being too picky.
Are you looking for the perfect person, one who has the “perfect” personality for your company’s culture, as well as the skills, educational background, and qualifications that match the job description completely?
We see it all the time: employers who wait, looking for the just-right candidate and turning down – or even not looking at — good, hard-working people who could learn on the job.
Instead, why not forget about finding the perfect (because, after all, perfect just doesn’t exist) and go for the enthusiastic and trainable?
In addition, instead of looking outside your company for new hires, take a look at your current employees to see who has the right attitude and aptitude – and train him or her for a new position.
If you do hire from outside, hire for attitude and train for skills that are lacking. Start being more flexible regarding who you hire and embrace the idea of “good enough.”
Bayside Solutions can help you find that “good enough” employee. In fact, we can help you find that “great” employee. What’s more, we dare say that many of the people in our database – including those working as temporary associates now – are pretty darn as “close to” perfect as it gets.
Whether you need reliable, enthusiastic and hard-working employees for your San Jose company’s temporary, temp-to-hire or direct-hire opportunities, we can find them for you. Contact us today!
