6 Hiring Mistakes Your Staffing Agency Should Never Make

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The hiring process is one of the most important stages of any staffing business’s success. It’s ongoing, and comes built-in with many critical moments where keen attention, perceptiveness, and understanding are crucial. Mistakes may cost you time and energy, or worse: they may creep in, go unnoticed for some time, and then emerge out of the shadows to throttle some aspect of your business. With so much pressure to get the hiring process right, it’s easy to see how some little detail might escape your attention, and some flaw may emerge in your hiring process. Make sure it’s not one of these six, and you’ll be able to avoid wasting time, or even potential disaster.

  1. If you don’t pre-screen your applicants…
    Best bad-case scenario, you waste time (i.e. money) on an applicant who has neither the experience nor the skillset that you are looking for. Worst case-scenario, you fail to catch a lurking history of failure or sabotage in your interview that a quick pre-screening would catch.
  2. If you don’t prepare your applicant…
    You could end up with a painful interview that wastes everyone’s time.
  3. If you don’t prepare your interviewers…
    You could end up missing out on the applicant you want just because your interviewers have got their own standards and don’t know what you’re looking for.
  4. If you put too much stake in your interview over the candidate’s resume and application…
    Not only are interviews actually not very accurate predictors of future employee success, but putting too much stake in the interview could allow extroversion and congeniality to trump strong writing skills and creative thinking. This is the same mistake as evaluating the applicant’s personality over their skillset.
  5. If you don’t try to develop a large-enough pool of applicants…
    This is like doing casting for a play and choosing from 4 actors for 3 rolls. You’re bound to make some compromises, just because you need to fill the parts.
  6. If you don’t keep perspective and take on more than you can handle…
    For example, by inviting too many people to interview, you can severely unbalance your company’s resources and find yourself unable to handle all the applicants you’ve invited. Then you will be in quite a crunch.

Remember these six tips and you may avoid critical lapses in the hiring process, hire effectively, and bring prosperity to your staffing company. However, forget these tips and you are sure to waste time or perhaps even make a vital mistake.