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March 2006 Issue ll
ALD, Inc.
Providing education, guidance and solutions for mastering leadership competencies
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March Feature – Because our year-end survey overwhelming requested more information on hiring practices, we’re issuing a second March newsletter edition on hiring practices. Read on….
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Hiring the Right Talent the First Time
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Business Issue
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Talent. In its most simple definition talent is any individual who has the capability to make a significant difference to the current and future performance of the company.
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It is no wonder that more and more organizations are realizing the importance of good talent as a competitive edge. The scary thing is that in the next 10 years, HR professionals expect three out of 10 employees in their organization’s workforce to retire. That’s a lot of talent leaving organizations.
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Are you ready to replace these individuals without sacrificing productivity? Customer service?
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In these tough and competitive times, and certainly in tight labor markets, the need to hire the right talent the first time must be a top organizational strategy.
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Some Perspective
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Selection is the process of choosing individuals with the right qualifications to fill jobs. Without qualified employees, the organization’s success suffers. To put this in perspective let’s look at some HR truisms:
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Hire tough, manage easy… When the right individuals are not hired for jobs, employers have much more difficulty trying to fill the gap with training…
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Read the entire article
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Just a quick test for you - Is it legal to ask…?
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Place an “L” before the questions you feel you can legally ask in the interview, and place an “I” before those you believe are illegal to ask in the interview.
____ 1. How old are you?
____ 2. This job requires that you work extra hours. Do you have children with whom this would cause a problem?
____ 3. If hired, can you provide proof that you are 18 years of age?
____ 4. From what country are you a citizen?
____ 5. Are you prevented from becoming legally employed because of visa or immigration status?
____ 6. What is your marital status?
____ 7. Are you handicapped?
____ 8. Are you capable of performing the necessary assignments of this job in a safe manner?
____ 9. What languages to you read, speak or write fluently?
____ 10. Have you ever been arrested?
© More Than a Gut Feeling ll; American Media Incorporated
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ALD provides two great choices for developing the skills necessary for managing the hiring process and for conducting the interviews effectively:
- Hiring Winning Talent – a classroom or online workshop to develop and implement a structured process that can really streamline and empower successful hiring
- Behavioral Interviewing – an online course to provide you with the tools you need to ask the right questions to better discover if your candidate is the right person for the job
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8.0 Hour Classroom Workshop
or
4.0 Hour Online Course
There’s more to it than the interview!
A successful hiring process doesn’t start with the job posting and doesn’t end when a candidate has been selected. Before an open position is advertised, an efficient and consistent hiring process must be in place. That process will enable a manager to identify the job competencies, build the interview questions, and develop the hiring strategy required to win a really qualified new employee who performs well and fits in from day one.
Experience has proven that a manager’s ability to understand and participate in a structured hiring process has a direct impact on business results. Without a process in place managers devote too much time to interviews and too little time to interview preparation and the selection process itself.
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1.5 Hour Online Course
The tools you need to ask the right questions DURING the interview
Successful interviews begin with these key principles:
- Future behavior is best predicted by past behavior– can the candidate
demonstrate that they’ve been able to effectively perform this skill/job in the past?
- Effective interviewing begins with a thorough understanding of the open position
– be prepared with the right questions and the right answers.
- Focus on the right fit for the organization, as well as capabilities for the job – what
skills would the person need?
- Multiple interviews and interviewers produce more accurate results.
- Candidates must be treated with dignity and respect.
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Organizations have successfully used both of these courses in preparing their management staffs for the task of hiring the right people for the right job.
Contact ALD for more information or to preview either of these courses.
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Bookmark these ALD links for quick training references
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AiA Classic- Increase self-awareness, self-confidence and self-motivation by affirming strengths, talents, and abilities; transform negative attitudes into positive ones. A unique learning experience.
DiSC System Materials – Real interpersonal effectiveness is all about understanding our own impact on others, recognizing other styles so that we can adapt our behavior to other stylesto maximize interpersonal effectiveness.
Blended Learning – Optimize your investment in learning, consider at least combining traditional classroom training and the technology of the Internet; blend techniques in a variety of ways.
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ANSWERS: Is it legal to ask…?
__I__ 1. How old are you?
__I__ 2. This job requires that you work extra hours. Do you have children with whom
this would cause a problem?
__L__ 3. If hired, can you provide proof that you are 18 years of age?
__I__ 4. From what country are you a citizen?
__L__ 5. Are you prevented from becoming legally employed because of visa or immigration
status?
__I__ 6. What is your marital status?
__I__ 7. Are you handicapped?
__L__ 8. Are you capable of performing the necessary assignments of this job in a safe
manner?
__L__ 9. What languages to you read, speak or write fluently?
__I__ 10. Have you ever been arrested?
Do you need to know more about the hiring process?
© More Than a Gut Feeling ll; American Media Incorporated
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