Are we still sticking to the tailor-made Hiring Concept ???
25 September, 2008
"I can't find any qualified candidates"
"The candidates who are qualified aren't my type"
Sound Familiar? CONSIDER VALUE-ORIENTED HIRING!!!!
Value-oriented hiring emphasizes hiring those people whose values and standards of excellence align with yours and those of your organization. During the interview, we suggest you go beyond the standard resume-oriented interviewing questions and focus on the character, commitment and general outlook of the person. In other words, focus on the intangibles. With the value-oriented hiring process, the attitudes and values of a candidate may become of equal or more importance than the required skills and experience this person brings to the interview.
Why Do It?
To increase your ability to hire those people who align with your values. The most qualified candidates will not work out unless they "value" what you value.
How To Do It?
Step 1. As a company, identify and communicate your key values.
Step 2. Communicate your key values up-front to all new and potential hires, and train existing staff on these as an ongoing process.
Step 3. Request feedback on these values and explain in "behavioral terms" what this looks like to you.
Case History Example
If you were to interview with Disney World in Florida, they would communicate their values and expectations in the first fifteen minutes of the interview. If you have ever taken a vacation there, you've seen and felt the impact of this culture. They utilize what I refer to as "value hiring" as well as any company I have heard about or done business with. You can see the effect for yourself.
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While I agree that identifying your core values as a company is essential to successfully identifying good employee matches, there is still a good chance that you will find a lack of people who match both your skill set needs AND your value needs.
You may need to look at whether the two are essentially in conflict! For instance, a company that needs a creative, out-of-the-box graphic designer, and yet holds as a core value uniformity in appearance and behavior (as reflected in strict hours of attendance, formal business attire, etc) is likely to experience a lack of either the right skills or the "right" values in all comers. The skill set draws a group of people who by and large do not fit in with the value set. A dilemma many businesses face without ever realizing the nature of the problem.
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