The secret to finding the best employee It can be an extremely stressful situation to build your company. One thing that is even more

stressful is to put its future in the hands of people who you aren’t sure are even capable of doing

what you need done. With all of this stress there are ways to make sure that you choose the

right employees. Here are some ways

to make the right choices.

Understand their skills This is an obvious thing that every

employer needs to look at when they are choosing employees. It is the “how” that is not as

obvious. You need to be able to ask the right questions and more and more employers are

having employees do a sort of tryout that requires them to show what they can really do. This is

a good idea to truly understand what the applicant is capable of. Another way is to do a proper

background check through one of the many types of applicant screening software.

Character Even more important than the skills that your future employee will have, is their all-around

character. Are they honest? Will they be responsible and reliable? How do you measure this?

Many employers will check their resume and see what they have done in the past and will ask

them specific questions to find out as much as they can about the nature of the applicant.

Look to the future When you look at the applicant what do you see? This is something that you need to ask

yourself. Do you see this applicant as a future manager or specialist in the field you are trying to

fill? Do you see them taking responsibility and being as

invested in the company as you are? What you see is

not just your imagination. We all have intuition and if you

see something don’t just let it go but be willing to trust it.

Know there is always risk It takes some substantial risk when you finally make an

executive decision. You never know how well they will do

until you give them a try. Sometimes you can do just that

with internships but even then, you never know what

they will do when they become actual employees. You

have to be willing to give them the reigns and empower

them by trusting them. Sometimes this can create huge

problems, especially if you didn’t do enough background

checking and you didn’t get enough information to make

a good decision. But when it is a good choice, you will find that things get done much more

effectively than you even expected.

Make sure you make the right choice by doing your homework on

the individuals you take on to your team. This means that you need

to understand their capabilities as well as their character. These

two components of each individual are so crucial that if you forget,

you will be sorry. Lastly make sure you look at them and decide

what they will be in the future. If you have an idea of what they can

become it will be much easier to take the risk of letting them on the

team.

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