HIRING and interviewing DO’S AND DON’TS Stephen Cilley CEO Ataraxis PEO

If all you are looking for is a “Warm body”… Hiring Your approach to hiring employees will directly correlate to how long you retain them. If all you are looking for is a “Warm body”…

…Your candidates may look like this…

Before you INTERVIEW AND HIRE Why? Full or Part time Length of employment Job Description Before you INTERVIEW AND HIRE

Before you INTERVIEW AND HIRE (continued) What? Is the ideal candidate Skills are needed Minimum requirements Will make a person successful in the position Before you INTERVIEW AND HIRE (continued)

Skills Experience Attitude Cultural Fit What’s most important?

THE INTERVIEW …is not this

INTERVIEWING The Process Resume/Application review/cut Phone interview In Person interview Testing INTERVIEWING

INTERVIEWING They are interviewing you Interview team Immediate supervisor Different department supervisor Position coworker HR INTERVIEWING

INTERVIEWING Interview must-dos Put the candidate at ease Warn them you ask lots of questions Give them every opportunity to be successful Candidate will reflect your attitude and openness INTERVIEWING

Written questions INTERVIEWING Skills/Experience Work Scenarios Company Values Someone else hiring is like an arranged marriage INTERVIEWING

INTERVIEWING Always include this question Tell me about a time you received negative feedback. What happened? What did you learn? Self awareness and open to feedback INTERVIEWING

INTERVIEWING Testing Personality test Skills testing Set up a real scenario Cannot be real work that will benefit company INTERVIEWING

Don’t leave it to HR to hire the right people! INTERVIEWING

HOW DO YOU VIEW YOUR EMPLOYEES?

Invest in your employees “We Grow People” -Ataraxis Employees = assets

What “WE GROW PEOPLE” means to us

Stephen Cilley scilley@ataraxispeo.com QUESTIONS?