common misconceptions and advice from an expert

Hello friends!

If you have already opened this article, then you are definitely wondering how to assemble a team for yourself, and not hire some strange people. I recommend reading to the end, it will be interesting and will allow you to avoid mistakes, which are sometimes costly!

Mistake 1: Misunderstanding the job requirements

It often happens that the employer does not understand what requirements and skills are needed for a particular position. As a result, this leads to incorrect selection of candidates and unsuccessful hiring.

If you are a new entrepreneur, you should understand that at each stage of your development you need different specialists. And often entrepreneurs hire a lot of unnecessary people and greatly inflate the payroll (payroll fund).

And here’s what you really need to do: Before publishing a vacancy, you should carefully analyze the requirements for the position. Ideally, you should contact specialists in the field where you are looking for an employee to get professional advice. This will help you create an accurate list of requirements, which will make selecting candidates 100 times easier. Also, it is important to understand what personal qualities are important for a specific position and be able to check them correctly, which is also best done with the help of specialists.

Mistake 2: Neglecting to get recommendations from your previous job

From my own experience, I know how employers neglect to check references from previous jobs. Moreover, this is done by both beginners and experienced entrepreneurs.

And here’s why you shouldn’t do this: having received information about the reasons for leaving your previous job, recommendations from your former boss, it will be much easier to find out professional skills and how this person works in a team, some features that the applicant might not have mentioned. You need to ask the right questions.

Mistake 3: Ineffective Interviews

One of the biggest misconceptions everyone has is to think that only a personal conversation will allow you to get to know the applicant, understand his skills, motivation and true experience.

People especially like to do this if they don’t want to pay hiring specialists or don’t even create at least some kind of structured list of questions, coming up with them on the fly. The interview is the final stage of the hiring funnel, followed by tests and questionnaires.

Friends, don’t be like them)) do it right: Create a structure of questions that follow and complement each other, add trap questions, fill out questionnaires for each potential employee, so you can choose the one most suitable for you and understand his real skills and assess his potential.

Mistake 4: Lack of any kind of skill assessment

A very common mistake among beginning entrepreneurs, when they need to recruit people right away and the standards are very low. By trusting your impression of an employee, you inevitably risk getting an incompetent specialist who, at best, will simply slow down the work, and at worst… his work = mistakes will cost you too much. You should not rely only on what is written in the resume, because now applicants know how to write a resume in such a way that you can understand their true skills.

To prevent this from happening, you need to develop test tasks that will allow you to assess the candidate’s professional skills. There are a number of tests, and for different types of positions, naturally, they are different, which allow you to determine personal qualities, psychotype, motivation, etc. With the help of tests and well-conducted interviews, you can objectively compare candidates and determine who is best suited for you. For those who do not want to dive into such important nuances, there are entire agencies that help you select employees specifically according to your request.

Mistake 5: Outdated company culture or lack thereof (for young entrepreneurs)

When new employees join the team, you need to understand that everyone adapts to the new company differently. If you could previously lure people in with the banal “Friendly team” or “Free coffee”, now this will no longer work.

Literally, each employee needs a special approach. For example, by setting a flexible schedule for employees, you will see that they will be more willing to come to work (if it is offline). In the modern world, with such high growth rates of e-commerce, the online format of work is becoming more and more popular and this is a special talent of a leader – to be able to interest people and unite a team, learn to motivate and control it.

Well, we remember the key rule – any business is run by people 🙂

Properly motivated employees feel better in a team and will therefore work more effectively together as a team.

Well, to conclude

Hiring employees is an important component of a company’s business processes, where every mistake can result in financial costs. By avoiding these common mistakes, you will avoid losses and increase the company's efficiency.