SPEND TIME INTERVIEWING TO SAVE TIME Sam Barrett discusses how spending a little time going through an interview process may actually save you time in the long run
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n the horticulture sector, we often take job candidates at face value but this can and does blow up in our faces. How many times have you taken on someone for a role for it to “not work out”? This happens often enough with my horticulture clients that I have noticed a pattern. There are often little or no interview structures in place for recruiting new talent into these businesses. Usually, the hiring process involves meeting someone for a chat, over coffee, and if you have a good feeling, you hire them. Unfortunately, there are plenty of people out there who are extremely skilled at informal interviews, can put up a good front and potentially mislead you. SO HOW CAN WE IMPROVE? One way to achieve a successful outcome from the hiring procedure is to have a standardised interview process when you are trying to recruit new talent for your business. However, this needs to be coupled with urgency, you don’t want the process to drag out so much that you will lose the person to your more decisive competitors. I recently undertook a LinkedIn poll that had over 6,500 views, and well over two thirds of respondents thought that an interview process with more than two stages was too much. With this in
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