BRX Pro Tip: Before You Hire Do This
Stone Payton: [00:00:00] And we are back with Business RadioX Pro Tips. Lee Kantor and Stone Payton here with you. Lee, there are some steps and one very critical and productive step that we ought to take before we hire.
Lee Kantor: [00:00:14] Yeah. There’s something to think about before you’re hiring anybody for any position and see if you can come up with some sort of a test or a project that your candidate has to do that forces your candidate to actually demonstrate mastery of the work you want them to do.
Lee Kantor: [00:00:31] So, if you can figure out, okay, I need a person to do this thing, like in our case, if you want someone to be a good interviewer is you ask them to interview somebody and then you listen to the interview and see if they are doing it well enough. Is it something that they have the skills to do already or is it something you’re going to have to really spend a lot of energy in training them to do the work?
Lee Kantor: [00:00:57] So, if you can come up with a test that forces your candidate to actually demonstrate mastery of the work you want them to do, it’s going to be – you’re going to feel a lot better about them once you hire them.
Lee Kantor: [00:01:08] And then, once they’ve passed this kind of threshold of mastery by demonstrating mastery, you can then put them on a smaller project, a one to three-month project, to see if they truly are a culture fit. Because there’s one thing to have the skills, but the other thing is to fit in to make sure they’re a good team member, and it’s important to remember that it’s always better to hire slowly and fire fast.
Lee Kantor: [00:01:33] You want to make sure you have the right fit. Wait for your pitch when it comes to this. Wait for the exact right person. And if it’s not working out, you’ve got to pull the ripcord pretty quickly because having the wrong person in a row can really sabotage your company. It can really be a cancer, and it could really bring the morale down for everybody if they see that a person can work here and not be a good fit and really bring a lot of people down.
