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Hiring a senior member of staff properly should take up to 80 hours
Senior staff make or break companies.
The right person can propel a business several steps forward, helping to win lucrative new contracts and ensuring they are profitably delivered on time.
But the wrong person can destroy decades of hard work. They can literally rip a business apart, as the directors focus their time and attention on ridding themselves of this person and minimising the damage, rather than growing the company.
This is why Lis Welsh and her team estimate that you should invest around 80 hours into the recruitment of a senior person.
It’s when you start to cut corners; to try to reduce the amount of time or the cost of hiring a senior member of staff, that you can run into problems.
With 20 years recruiting for the industry, Lis has seen all the mistakes. Companies that try to do it all in-house and on the cheap. The job falls on the shoulders of a busy manager who already has a very full workload.
Could you find a spare 80 hours over the next two months? Most of us would find it extremely hard to do this, which is how corners get cut.
Other companies get their HR department to recruit for them. The problem with this is that being good at HR doesn’t automatically make you good at recruitment. Few HR people are passionate about recruitment – their heart simply isn’t in it. They’d rather focus on the things they trained to handle, such as helping you manage and develop your team.
It’s when you cut corners that you risk making a major mistake such as hiring the wrong person. There’s no quicker way to risk contracts and the future of the business.
Lis realised many years ago that you cannot attract the right talented senior staff without a very smart, powerful recruitment strategy.
Which is why she has put together and tested a seven step recruitment sequence. The steps of the sequence help her identify and hire the right people for her clients.
Here’s the big benefit: You get someone with insider knowledge to find the right person for you, then build a very strong case why they should join your team.
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