480-716-5333Your investment in the expertise of the team at Potere Search is guaranteed to save you time, money, frustration, and less tangible yet vital factors like the morale of your staff and their level of satisfaction with their job and the overall management of the company. Our focus is not just to fill a seat in your corporate office and collect our fees. Instead, we are genuinely committed to learning about your business, the needs that the candidate must fill, and what will define a great new hire for this position. At Potere Search, there is no such thing as good enough. That is another way to categorize the failure to reach our goal of delivering great candidates who will meet and exceed your expectations and needs today and can grow with your business in the future.
What Makes a Great Candidate?
Of course, when you are hiring a new team member, they need to have the hard skills or technical ability the job requires. And they need also to bring the soft skills that will allow them to quickly and successfully blend into your team, work as a part of the entire unit, converse with clients and co-workers, and add to the success and productivity of the team. Experience in the field, understanding and alignment with the company culture, and the ability to learn and adapt are all critical factors when evaluating candidates. These skills, even when not fully developed, can be nurtured and grown.
However, there are some aspects of a great candidate that cannot be taught or enhanced if they are not present in the person. A strong work ethic, a desire to succeed, an abject disdain for failure, enthusiasm, and passion for exceeding expectations are all factors that a great candidate in any field will bring with them. They cannot be taught once the person is on board. At Potere Search, our staff is looking for candidates who bring these vital qualities with them, as well as the skills and talent needed to complete the work you need.
How We Find Great Candidates
Every company and hiring manager has a list of questions they use to determine whether a person is a good fit for a job. Of course, the team at Potere Search will technically qualify any potential candidate we provide to our clients. But we will also use more challenging and revealing questions to ensure we are delivering great options to our clients. Posing no-win questions is the best way to evaluate how the most intelligent people in the room handle stress and the unknown. The candidate who tries to ignore the impossible to answer question or who tries to talk around the point is not going to fare well in a crisis.
We also believe that honesty and integrity are critical when answering tough questions. The candidate who is asked a question they should never be able to answer or that is far above their required skill or knowledge, is being given the opportunity to show their integrity. The wise and confident person will tell you what they do not know as willingly as what they do know. Great candidates and employees will say to you when they do not know the answer. And those with desire will also tell you that they will learn or discover the answers needed to resolve the challenge.
What Is Excellence?
By definition, excellence is being the best at something or outstanding. For example, Michael Jordan is considered an excellent basketball player because of his stats and domination during his playing career. However, in the business world, the stats vary based on the business and its needs. At Potere Search, our first job is to define excellence in your industry, business, and for the role you need to fill. Once we have established that bar, we will find you the candidates who can meet your specific excellence standards.