Poor hiring decisions from start up level to successful companies frequently are costly and derail business decisions. To improve your hiring outcomes look more closely at fit between company and individual.
Many company failures result from these poor hiring strategies, placing the wrong people in the wrong job. Typically it takes around 18 months to find out if you’ve been successful. with your last hire. These are expensive lessons to learn.
Fine tune your hiring strategies. Don’t believe that resumes and glowing testimonials are indicators of success. Look deeper, deeper and then deeper again to really understand the fit between the individual, your organisation and business success outcomes.
12 attributes to look for when hiring at Start Up Level
- Can do attitude
- Focus on getting leverage from functional executive hires
- Be less busy after you hired or promoted executive, rather than busy as you were before hire – hire is below standard
- Can relay incredibly complex ideas in simple terms
- Can see things you don’t, can convince you of new points of view or make you realize you are missing something
- Be relentlessly resourceful and innovative
- As companies scale in size have the ability to do their jobs in new ways
- Have the ability to do what it takes to get the job done when faced with a challenge rather than ‘play’ the game
- Comfortable with change and ambiguity and adapt to different roles
- Thrive in a start up environment
- Have a flexible approach
- No matter the challenge, like a fine athlete, have an attitude to win
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