Hire Smart from the Start

•   CHAPTER 5   •

Map the Organization’s Foundational Mission and Values

The next four chapters focus on the four steps required to put into action the entrepreneurial recruiting mindset covered in the first section of the book. These four steps are mapping your company’s mission and values; testing your perceptions of the candidate’s strengths and weaknesses, which may be right or wrong; mapping the candidate’s mission and values; and finally extracting the best candidates for your company.

Before focusing on the first process step in this chapter, understand that the four steps in this section aren’t necessarily in chronological order. In real life, you may take these steps simultaneously; or you may implement parts of each step at different ...