In this job market, you might expect that hiring new employees would be easy. But many entrepreneurs still struggle to find good people. In a recent survey of Inc. 5000 CEOs, hiring edged out even the economy and government regulation as their top concern, with nearly one-quarter of respondents identifying it as the biggest challenge they had faced in the preceding three months.
To be sure, not every candidate is a rock star. But if you keep turning up dud after dud, the problem may not be the applicant pool. In a quest to find the best workers, entrepreneurs sometimes wind up adopting hiring practices that are actually detrimental to their companies. Here are the four most common problems that afflict interviewers.
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Are you a narcissistic boss?Without a deliberate hiring strategy, founders often gravitate toward job candidates who share their personality. |
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Are you a perfectionist boss?Wonder why it's so hard to find good people? Maybe you're asking too much. |
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Are you overthinking your hires?So what if you make a hiring mistake? Here's how to beat analysis paralysis. |
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How to make hiring less franticRecruiting is like selling: You need to develop a pipeline and build relationships. Here's how. |
