HIRING PRACTICES


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your BY RYAN LISK


Improve your interviewing practices to choose the best employees for your company.


ou run a small irrigation business. Tings are going well and your business is taking off. How- ever, now you have to do something you dread: hire another technician. You have three candidates coming in to in- terview this afternoon. Tis is not your area of


expertise and, let’s face it, hiring these days is tough. It’s a challenge just trying to find someone who will show up for the interview, let alone the first week of work. You are thinking to yourself, “You know what, I’m mak- ing an offer to anyone who shows up and we’ll figure it out from there. Hiring is like gambling anyway and it’s more about luck. I hope I hit the lottery with one of them.”


My job is to help you reduce the amount of luck you


are relying on and add more skill to your hiring game, and you need something for this afternoon’s candidates.


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Here is a 10-question do-it-yourself, practical approach to “hiring for fit.” Te first part includes five interview questions to ask about the role you’re hiring for, the second part includes five interview questions to ask the candidate, and then we will put the two parts together using the three-candidate example.


START WITH THE JOB


To start, interview the job. Tis may sound strange, but let the job talk. What is the job looking for? Determine what you want. Don’t be lazy here. Te lazy way out is saying you want someone who can do it all. If that’s where you’re at, you’re setting yourself up for a poor hire that won’t be able to live up to that standard. Put some thought into what you want from the job’s perspective. After all, what could a bad hiring decision cost your company?


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