Strategic Staffing is the process of targeting and attracting staff who have skills that will complement and help the business in achieving its strategic targets and goals.
Unfortunately, embracing strategic staffing in its basic form may lead to major challenges within your business. If your strategic staffing goals focus only on skills, the person you recruit may not fit and embrace your company culture. Bringing someone into your business team who does not share the same values as you and your team almost always results in heartache.
Whether you already have an amazing internal culture or are busy changing the existing one, when recruiting, value alignment should be on the top of your list.
Creating a Winning Culture, is an ongoing process. Your business culture continually evolves over time. Culture includes your Values, Beliefs and Practices. In evaluating your business culture, it is always useful to begin by revisiting your company’s values, as set out in your vision, mission and values statements.
When using a recruitment company, make sure they understand your business values and culture. We recommend using behavioural profiling tools which enable you understand your candidates’ strengths, weaknesses, areas that need development, as well as what motivates and demotivates the candidate. It is important to remember that profiling tools are just a tool to aid the recruitment process.
Once you have selected your candidate and offered them the position, you need to ensure that you have a thorough induction process. This process needs to include an introduction to the business culture, as well as what is expected of team members and what they can expect in return. Consider that during the recruitment process both you and your prospective staff member choose each other.
For Strategic staffing to be successful, it needs to have equal emphasis on skill set and business culture.
So why not give me a call to sit down over a cup of coffee and discuss how we can be of service to you and your business?
It's likely to be the best decision you will make this year!
Unfortunately, embracing strategic staffing in its basic form may lead to major challenges within your business. If your strategic staffing goals focus only on skills, the person you recruit may not fit and embrace your company culture. Bringing someone into your business team who does not share the same values as you and your team almost always results in heartache.
Whether you already have an amazing internal culture or are busy changing the existing one, when recruiting, value alignment should be on the top of your list.
Creating a Winning Culture, is an ongoing process. Your business culture continually evolves over time. Culture includes your Values, Beliefs and Practices. In evaluating your business culture, it is always useful to begin by revisiting your company’s values, as set out in your vision, mission and values statements.
When using a recruitment company, make sure they understand your business values and culture. We recommend using behavioural profiling tools which enable you understand your candidates’ strengths, weaknesses, areas that need development, as well as what motivates and demotivates the candidate. It is important to remember that profiling tools are just a tool to aid the recruitment process.
Once you have selected your candidate and offered them the position, you need to ensure that you have a thorough induction process. This process needs to include an introduction to the business culture, as well as what is expected of team members and what they can expect in return. Consider that during the recruitment process both you and your prospective staff member choose each other.
For Strategic staffing to be successful, it needs to have equal emphasis on skill set and business culture.
So why not give me a call to sit down over a cup of coffee and discuss how we can be of service to you and your business?
It's likely to be the best decision you will make this year!
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