How Your Company Can Compete for Top Talent

 

First, you need to attract the top talent to apply. According to the Regional Vice President of Robert Half, Josh Howarth, as a small business owner you need to follow his three rules of recruitment advice: “1. Accentuate your assets, 2. Make “small” a selling point and 3. get the word out.” Read his full article for more information.  Dr. Peter Guy, an expert in hiring and selection, says “recruitment firms need to make sure that when they post the job description that they need to understand what character traits match the job description that they are posting.” In a recent article written by Jonathan Stoller at the Globe and Mail, he interviewed Frances Mote, Director at Niagara Street Consulting who agreed with Dr. Guy, “Organizations need to fully understand the job position they are trying to fill, and what makes it interesting and challenging.”

 

Now once you have achieved a successful recruitment campaign, you will need to focus on ensuring that the candidates’ character traits match the job description. According to Dr. Peter Guy, “The most important is to match the competencies required for particular position with individual competencies of each candidate. To be able to evaluate objectively candidates potential we are using the Optimax Character Assessment (over 500 parameters) and the Competency Matrix Assessment. Based on the Competency Matrix Assessment we build the mathematical model of the position and then filter the candidates’ Character Assessment results through this model and on the end we can say in one number how strong potential is. Finally, we can rank all the candidates from the strongest to the weakest and tell what their strengths and weaknesses are for each candidate regarding the specific position. This process includes the unique culture, operating philosophy and relational factors of the organization.”

 

It is a competitive job market and ensuring that you utilize all the best and objective tools available to you to achieve top performance from your employees is vital the success and sustainability of your business.