Why Your Hiring Process Is Broken — and How to Fix It

Many aspects of the business world have changed in the last generation or even the previous few decades. However, one old saying has never been more true: time is money. While time has not changed, what you can accomplish in a given amount of time has increased exponentially. Your business is slowly dying when you are not increasing productivity to meet this new potential. If you are wasting this valuable commodity, the speed at which your business will fail will likely increase dramatically. So, why are companies willing to hire anyone willing to take a seat in their facility? The answer is they are relying on a broken hiring process, and filling a seat is the best they can do with this limited capability.

Wasting Time and Money

Many hiring managers argue that when they are filling roles, their hiring process is working well. However, the actual test of the process requires a hard look at the time needed to fill the position, the qualification or quality of the new hires, and the ghosting and lack of success of the new hires. Not only does fast turnover cost the time of a hiring team, but it also wastes the time of the staff who are training and grooming the new hires. Almost as costly are the new hires who stick with the job but are not well qualified for the position, decreasing the overall productivity and morale of the team they were hired to help.

How To Fix a Broken Hiring Process

When your car is not running, you take it to a mechanic. When you are sick, you see a doctor. When your hiring process is broken, you call in the expert hiring professionals at Potere Search to help you correct the issues or create an entirely new process that gets you the best candidates for your job openings. Our team is ready to provide a 30-minute audit of your hiring process to illustrate the impact they can make in under an hour.

While we are relatively certain this short visit will not cover all the challenges faced by your hiring team, it will demonstrate the need for further exploration of the process and the refinement of a hiring process that will work for your company today and can be enhanced to grow with the business and meet further needs for expansion. Some of the more lengthy solutions offered by the Potere Search team include new interview processes and loops, addressing the candidate experience and enhancing it, and providing the opportunity for feedback from candidates to hone your interview and selection process.

Please get in touch with the Potere Search team today to discuss your hiring process and allow our staff to book a time to complete a short audit. In less than an hour, you will see that the improvements our staff helps to make in this process will save your business time and money each time it begins the search process to hire a new employee.

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