CHAPTER EIGHT
Hire
FIT IS IT
Ponder this: What was your best hire ever? How can you repeat that?
You’ve heard the adage “Start with the end in mind,” right? The perfect ending is that the people you work so hard to recruit (from inside or outside the organization) turn out to be exactly right for the jobs you hire them to do! They love being on your team and working for you. And they stay for a while.
The love ’em approach to engaging and retaining talent starts with the hiring process. Why? Because getting the right people in the door in the first place increases the odds of keeping them. As the manager, you have the clearest sense of the right fit for your department. Seems logical, doesn’t it? Yet some managers see selection as a less important ...
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