How To Hire A Team That Will Boost Your StartUp

Most entrepreneurs start businesses to make profit. Consequently perhaps giving back to the society comes in handy unless it is a non-profitable organization. Hiring and firing one is a crucial task and that is why a technical bench is handed the mandate of interviewing people. In order to make your business thrive one should consider important factors. The problem with most entrepreneurs is that they tend to take long in building a business empire only for it to fall in a split of a second. This is mostly due to negligence. Negligence always kicks in when you start hiring the people who are not sharing your company’s vision.  I have come up with a few ideas that will help you to make a better decision the next time you are hiring.

1. Do Not Hire Friends And Relatives

Your business will continue making losses as long as you will continue hiring the people you know or your relatives. The belief of ‘connection’ has been misconstrued to mean favors and friendship hiring. Hiring relatives most of the times means that you bring a weak force in business. Most people don’t perform their duty satisfactorily whenever they are around their friends and relatives. The better part of their job will be spent talking of their friendship or family issues. However, having a qualified person who can perform their task will be a plus to your business. Qualifications should be the key when doing hiring and not relationship. The moment relationship starts getting your way; failure takes the path of success in your business. This is what we call selective hiring rather than relative hiring. I suggest you use referrals while hiring. You can consult fellow entrepreneurs who they can recommend to work for your business in the position you are trying to fill. This helps as entrepreneurs know the qualifications and skills of the person they are recommending. You can read this article to know how referrals works.

2. Have Three or More Days of Interview

Interview has always been a crucial part in ones career. Whichever position one is interviewing should be taken seriously. To be honest, interviews should be done in a minimum of 3 days. This will enable the personnel mandated to carry out hiring to know the potential team better. Most people interviewing with companies in a day masquerade to be what they are not. Most interviewee pretend to be people they are not and most of the time is because they have mastered the questions to be asked. All they look up to is to get into the company and get paid. Most of them don’t mean what they specify as their objective in the company. Having a three or more day’s interview with your aspiring team will assist you to know and understand well the person you want to hire. Knowing the person better will definitely boost your business. This will enable you to learn and be in a position to ask your team mind boggling questions. At the end of these all you will have taken a bit of your time but the product will be lucrative in your business.

3. Have A Qualified Panel

Success of any business is always attributed to its employees and employers. The panel doing the interview need to have experience and be qualified while carrying out the process. This team of technocrat should have the ability to interview one in a competent manner without bias. Remember the future of your company is vested in their hands. Their field of expertise should be realized when hiring personnel. Failure to have this team in place will mean a doom to your company’s future. The team should be free and fair and so should the process be carried. Some say with experience shows wisdom and one of the panelists needs to know every nook and cranny of the company. This will assist the business in arriving at the best team for the business. However, being qualified should mean having someone who is all rounded and flexible to work in any department in business easily. 

4. Transparency, Competence and Fair

People hiring people need to learn to listen to what their potential team has to offer. The virtue mostly broken while hiring one in your team is transparency. Bribing people or offering favors to the future of business has jeopardized most entrepreneurs. Bribes have been exchanged outside the offices just to make sure my ‘friend’ gets the job. Fairness and transparency enables accountability to be part of your team. Favors should never be the grounds of hiring a team in your business. It always brings lurk in the business and running of the business is compromised. Your business can make a step hire to success when the three virtues are considered rather than favoring hiring