How Do You Hire The Right Individuals?

Every highly successful individual in the business world has one thing in common. They have surrounded themselves with high achievers. They chose the right people to support them and help make their vision become a reality. Perhaps that is their most crowning achievement – being able to recognize real talent in an interview and hire them.

There are many different opinions and methods for finding and keeping the best employees. Some companies offer a higher salary and continually de-employ the 10% of employees who are performing at the bottom. Other companies put prospective employees through psychological testing prior to hiring. Then there are companies that set up hiring teams to interview candidates. Medium to large companies have an HR manager and/or department tasked with recruiting, vetting and hiring the best employees. Smaller companies don’t have that luxury and must rely on testing, references and sometimes just ‘gut feeling’ about candidates. I’ve occasionally been disappointed by an employee who said all the right things in an interview but then doesn’t ‘walk the talk’ after they are hired.

So how do you find and hire good candidates? What is the vetting process used by your company?

The author, Marge Bonura, is the Director of Sales & Marketing for New England Machinery, Inc. (NEM). NEM is a leading packaging machinery manufacturer of bottle unscramblers, cappers, orienters, retorquers, lidders, pluggers, pump sorter/placers, scoop feeders, hopper elevators and much more. The company has been in business since 1974 selling to the food, beverage, pharmaceutical, personal care, chemical, household products, automotive and other industries. For more information on NEM, visit their website at http://www.neminc.com/.