Hiring is the most important job for an IT manager
DISCUSSION:
How much time do you spend on hiring? Do you share the hiring process with your subordinate managers or your branch staff? Do you have a process in place that you follow for every hire or do you reinvent the wheel for every hire. Do you call all the references? Do you ask around in your industry to see if the candidate should be hired? Do you search the internet for info on the candidate?
Hiring is important. Hiring is very important. Once you hire someone you are, for want of a better term, stuck. So doesn’t it make sense to spend the maximum amount of time on all new hires? Think about your last good hire. Now think about your last bad hire. What did you do different or was it just luck of the draw. Think about someone you didn’t hire who ended up being a problem. You often hear after the hire that someone in your company knew this person. If only the hiring manager had known.
You have to have a process that involves more than just you. It has to be a repeatable process that you use over and over. As you continue to repeat this process it gets easier and hiring gets better. No starting from scratch every time. Management isn’t fun. Management is a set of repeatable processes that you use over and over. Remember that standard operation procedure you have your server folks use when they build a server. This is the same concept. Do the same thing over and over and refine as you go along.
Remember using a repeatable process you will see your good hire percentage continue to increases. In future posts I will get specific on my hiring process.
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