The most valuable resource in any business is its people.  The people in your employment have the most significant impact on business profitability and cash flow while representing one of the top three costs for the business.  The key to every company’s future, no matter its size, is the people it hires today.  You improve your odds of hiring the best people by adopting the BusinessCPR™ New Hire Process.  Click here to learn more about this process.

The determining step in hiring the best people lies in the candidate interview.  A major mistake for most interviewers is asking too many general questions covering a wide area.  This results in superficial answers and fails to give the needed depth of understanding to recognize a weak candidate.  Instead, stay focused on the critical few objectives of the open position and drill down.  In other words, follow through on your questions by going deeper and asking for more specific details to learn why they did what they did.

To help you be more successful in hiring the right people for your business and the position you need them to excel at, the BusinessCPR™ New Hire Process provides two different interview guides to help you hire people who will help you make more money.  Below is the Job History interview guide.  This approach helps you see the candidate through their work history and is an exceptional method for ferreting out what people like to do and what they aren’t likely to do.  It is a more effective way of assessing how well they get things done and get along.  Two qualities that are always present in the best employees.  Click here for the Key Question Driven approach.

The difference between making what a business should and what it did is a function of who gets hired into a business and retained by management.  If you have people in your employ whom you regret hiring, you need a more structured hiring process.  A poor hire not only costs you significant money.  They make it difficult for your best employees who must work with them.  Use the following interview guide to help you avoid this costly mistake by taking more care to hire an employee than you would to borrow money to buy a high-priced asset you expect to make “big” money by acquiring.

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Should you have questions about implementing the BusinessCPR™ New Hire Process or in using the key questions interview guide, click here to schedule a time to speak with one of our certified BusinessCPR™ Coaches to get your questions answered.