Recruiting Perspective

Reliability isn’t just important.  It’s a must have.  Nobody wants to hire unreliable people and nobody wants to work for an unreliable boss or company.  Unreliable is bad business, plain and simple. If you don’t show up for the interview, or you show up late, or you don’t do what you said you would do, you’re sending the message loud and clear. In the interview process, you can’t always see reliability.  But you can’t miss unreliable. todd@toddkmiec.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/toddkmiec/

The other day I heard about a friend of a friend who had been out of work.  This was a company move and layoff because of the move.  No fault of the employee, and by all indications a pretty talented guy. Regardless of the talent, he’s been looking and hasn’t found anything for about six months.  He is an experienced candidate and he interviewed recently for an entry level role.  Not the right fit.  The company is interested in him and willing to hire him at the entry level or near entry level rate.  This would be a good $40,000 less than he was making before. It’s a decent sized company and there is room to move up, so my friend asked why he wouldn’t take it.  The thought process is, he needs to work and he can move up.  The problem is, he re-sets the bar at the lower level.  On his next move, internally or externally, he’s at that level and the comp offered will be based on that.  It’s a long haul to get back and nobody every buys the story that I used to be at a much higher

How will your business look at the end of 2018?  Hopefully better.  If things are good now, you still want better.  Better parts, better business. Companies are putting plans in motion to improve this year.  Those plans will involve a lot of recruiting to replace weaker parts and to add businesses, product lines, or divisions.  Identifying key areas for improved or additional talent is critical and will lead the way to a better business by the end of the year. todd@toddkmiec.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/toddkmiec/

In sports, acquisition of talent and development is the name of the game.  You win with better talent and better development of that talent. Alabama and Georgia in college football.  Duke and Kentucky in college basketball.  The Patriots in the NFL, the Yankees in major league baseball.  Any team that rises to the top is successful because they acquired and developed better talent. The drive to obtain the best talent in sports is relentless and great businesses are no different. todd@toddkmiec.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/toddkmiec/

Maybe not for you.  In recruiting we tend to fall into the trap of the ideal candidate.  While there are tremendously talented people that any company would benefit from having on board, there are too many talented people out there to make any one candidate the ideal fit for every business. One particular great candidate is not for everyone and maybe not for your business.  Focus on fit is extremely important.  What will this candidate do in your particular business?  What kind of impact will they have with the team that is already in place, with your culture, with your product line? By the way, the same goes for candidates.  There are great businesses that aren’t the right fit for a given candidate. Find great, but make sure it fits. todd@toddkmiec.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/toddkmiec/