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What is the fundamental hiring problem and how do you solve it? What are the three simple ingredients for hiring your best-fit candidates? Have you been thinking about hiring a virtual assistant?
In this podcast episode, Joe Sanok speaks about how to add a virtual assistant to your practice with James Marland.
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Meet James Marland
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Visit Course Creation Studio and connect with them on YouTube.
In This Podcast
- The fundamental hiring problem
- 3 simple ingredients for hiring success
- Consider the virtual assistant
- The first rule of hiring
The fundamental hiring problem
The fundamental problem of hiring is that you don’t know if you have a good hire until after you have hired them.
Something that might look good ahead of time could not be true after the fact is over. So, keep this in mind, and remember that the hiring evaluation process can extend beyond the initial agreement.
There are all sorts of things that you need to know before you hire somebody that you can’t test. You only know if the person’s a good fit for your practice based on their future behavior, and that’s a fundamental problem in hiring.
James Marland
However, there is a solution! You have to ask about their behavior or what happened in the past when they were in similar situations.
For most people, the best insight that you can have about them is to know what happened when they were in a similar situation.
3 simple ingredients for hiring success
1 – Raise your standards: the people that you bring in have to have a high impact on your business. A higher standard also slightly reduces risk.
The key action step: know the necessary behaviors that you need for a candidate to be successful in this role.
- State your vision and mission
- Compile a list of all the necessary duties within this role
- Identify the key behaviors of success
Then you create a job description using the duties, behaviors, [the] mission, and desire … you’re telling people exactly what you want.
James Marland
2 – Require those standards: use these standards actively in your work and assessment of your employees.
3 – Filter out the people that are not a good fit: it doesn’t mean that these people are not great folks, it’s just that this is not the right environment for them, or for you.
The key step: eliminate the bad first. Choose the people that will thrive in your company through the job posting and the interview process.
If you put things in your posting that indicate the behaviors that you want then you’re going to get better results with your filtering.
James Marland
Consider the virtual assistant
Virtual assistants generally do all the tasks that can be done from a computer or a phone for your office. These could include:
- Monitoring emails and responding to client enquiries
- Listening and responding to voice messages
- Posting on social media
You can even have specialist virtual assistants such as independent contractors that can handle your website, social media, and other maintenance.
So, depending on what you need, you can filter the job descriptions and postings, and look for evidence of the behavior that you want to hire into your practice on the resume of candidates that have responded to your call.
Where would the behavior of being detailed show up on a resume? Where would timeliness show up on a resume?
James Marland
The first rule of hiring
The first rule of hiring that can help you to hire well: don’t think about hiring when you are reviewing resumes. Look over applications as if you were not actively hiring, because that mental exercise will help you to spot potential red flags that you might’ve missed if you were desperately hiring just to get someone on soon.
One of the reasons that we hire people that are not fit for [the job] is because we don’t understand the job of a hiring manager which is to look for the things that don’t work because it’s so easy to hire people [and say] … “Oh, I think I could work with this person”.
James Marland
As well as evaluating the benefits, also be sure to evaluate the cons. Look for any potential red flags and assess them as well as the reasons why this person would work.
For a virtual assistant, try this for a great hiring practice:
- Helpful lead-in: explain the situation and give them an open-ended question to respond to which would reveal their past experience with this behavior, if any.
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Meet Joe Sanok
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