Would you like to have an all-star team of employees who consistently overachieve and help you surpass your business goals without fail? (Who wouldn’t?) It might sound like fantasy, but it’s possible to build an unstoppable crew full of workers who will succeed and stay long-term. You just need to learn how to find and hire great employees like your current top performers, and it’s easier than you think. We’ll explain the steps for hiring rockstar employees and even show you a simple solution that does all of the work for you!
Identify Your Best Workers
The first step toward hiring great employees is pinpointing your current top performers. One of the best ways to do this is by evaluating specific performance metrics that are relevant to your industry and the position at your company. Some examples include absenteeism rate, revenue per employee, and what’s known as “management by objectives” (MBO). You can also consider customer feedback and manager evaluations, but these are much more subjective.
Learn What Makes Your Top Performers Tick
Naturally, the next step is to determine why your best employees are so successful. How else can you find out which applicants will perform as well? While you can attempt to uncover this information with a list of questions and your gut feelings, we highly recommend using personality assessments. Specifically, you should evaluate employees using an assessment that’s backed by science and proven to work. This will glean important data about an individual’s mental makeup and identify personality traits that are key to their success.
Attract Job Seekers With Similar Personality Traits
Now it’s time to find more top performers to add to your team. Start the recruiting process, but don’t overlook the little things. If you don’t craft effective job postings and select the right job boards, you’re putting yourself at a considerable disadvantage in the battle for sourcing top talent.
Make sure your description grabs the attention of high-quality job seekers and reels them in with details that resonate with them, like benefits and company core values. Then, choose where you promote your opportunity wisely; you want to meet your target audience on the job boards they are most likely to visit.
Free Guide: Our e-book, How to Craft Job Postings That Boost Applicant Flow, outlines everything you need to do to reach and recruit top-notch workers.
Screen Applicants to Ensure Smart Hiring Decisions
Once you start seeing the applications roll in, it’s crucial to screen each candidate properly. In addition to interviews and the personality assessments we mentioned, make sure you conduct background checks. (Sprockets users save an average of 50% on background checks compared to leading providers!) This will help you reduce liability, verify information, and further determine if an applicant will be a good fit for your team. The last thing you want to do is hire the wrong person, deal with costly employee turnover, and have to complete the hiring process all over again.
Let Sprockets Do All the Work for You
You can try finding and hiring top performers yourself, or you can let our AI-powered hiring solution do the heavy lifting. It uses brief, three-question surveys to evaluate top performers and create unique success profiles. Then, applicants fill out the same survey to show you simple, red-yellow-green scores that indicate their likelihood of success. It’s trusted and loved by top brands to build stronger, more cohesive teams and boost employee retention by 43%!
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