4 Hiring Mistakes To Avoid

4 Hiring Mistakes To Avoid We all know how stressful hiring can be and thats why its important to get it right first time. Rushing the process and putting in minimal efforts will  usually result in a bad hire. Bad hires can have dramatic effects on the well-being of your employees, your clients and much more. To make sure that you are hiring the right employees we recommend avoiding the following: Bending The Truth Within your job advert, you may decide to throw in just a few white lies. Adding a few extra perks or sugarcoating the job description will hopefully make more people apply, right? Im sure they wont mind if its just a little white lie  Incorrect! Even if its not written in the job description, you may just bring something up during an interview or during their induction day to make them feel as though the role is a little bit more glamorous than it is, this is unfair for the candidate and its more than likely, they will leave.  Always tell the truth to avoid any disappointment, you wouldnt like it if the candidate lied about any of their qualifications or experience so keep it honest.   Guessing Whether its two candidates that you are choosing from or five, you might just decide to just pick their names out of a hat. Or perhaps play a game of rock, paper, scissors and see which name wins? Well, they all seemed pretty good, any of them will do. Wrong.   Its important that you carefully analyse each individual to ensure that you make a wise decision. You need to analyse their experience, capability, their personality and how well they performed in the interview. If you are struggling to choose between a couple of candidates make sure that you have access to their CV and the interview notes that you made. Is there anything that makes them stand out from the rest? Whos skills and experiences fit in most with the role? Simply guessing who is right the role can leave you taking on a bad hire that you will massively regret further down the line. Bad Interview Prep Why not just call up all of your candidates and ask them to come to an interview on a first come, first served basis? Youve got enough room for 6 people in the waiting room so inviting 15 people will be fine, right? And to  make it more relaxed, its probably best to not take any notes and to just try and store all the information in your head, its not like itll get confusing, is it? Avoid, avoid, avoid! Badly organised interviews can often  leave you confused and extremely stressed. So stressed that you forget to make any notes, you forget which candidate was which and most importantly, you just end up scaring  off the star candidates. To ensure that you make the most of your interview time and you get to know each individual you need to make organisation a priority. Allow yourself enough time to ask each candidate all of  your prepared questions, take lots of notes to reflect on  and most importantly, you need to make sure your interview slots run smoothly so you dont cut any interviews short or leave anyone waiting. Only Hiring For Technical Ability You may think that just There are lots of soft skills worth looking out for when making your next hire, skills that can determine how well someone works within a team and with clients, how organised they are and so on. Its important that you ask questions about a candidates personality within an interview to make sure that they tick all of the boxes rather than just one. Regardless of their skills and experiences, they may be difficult to work with and they may not get on with the rest of your team. Make sure that you carefully assess each candidate, this is why interviews are so important.