5 Steps to Stop Zombies Taking Over Your Business

The Working Dead (Bad Hires) are becoming a massive problem for small business and large business alike. Unless you are satisfied retracing your steps and constant turbulence in your team, you should work to avoid this zombie plague. Recruitment costs you time and money, do it right. Otherwise you'll have someone that takes longer to train, may be consistently missing work, is not very effective, has a tendency to infect others, scares away customers, and is tough to cure. It's easier to prevent the plague than to cure it.

Step One: Know what you are hiring for. Many people avoid really thinking about this step. Critical failure.

Step Two: Ensure you are clear about your expectations with candidates. Also, a good idea to get an idea of what they are after and see if you are able to supply what they need. i.e. opportunity, training, compensation...etc.

Step Three: Adequately screen the candidate for skills, abilities and fit to your job profile. Easy to miss if you missed step one.

Step Four: Research the candidate and do proper references.

Step Five: Manage the performance of the candidate from the beginning so that you reinforce the right habits, activities and behaviors.

Using this simple set of steps will ensure consistency and objectivity in the hiring process and help you avoid the Working Dead. Or you could focus on your business and have a professional like me build your plan...