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When hiring new staff there are a number of issues that need to be dealt with by a business owner or senior manager before a recruitment interview process begins. It’s much harder to retrofit this important information into a recruitment process after the fact.

We've created the following infographic to help with that pre-interview planning process. It sets out: 

• the 3 tasks to undertake before you begin the interview process;
• examples of what you might consider when carrying out each of those planning tasks.

Great staff are critical to our success as business owners and managers but, as our recent survey found, finding and keeping the right people is an ongoing challenge for many businesses.

One-third of our survey respondents indicated the biggest challenge impacting their business in the past six months had been 'finding and retaining good employees'.

Unfortunately we can't conjure appropriately trained staff out of the air for our clients and subscribers, but we can provide advice to make the recruitment process as successful as possible.

The following cheat sheet contains our 7 'golden rules' for successful hiring.

We all bring our own biases and prejudices to the task of hiring new staff and it's important to be aware of them.

It's equally important to minimise the impact of these personal biases when making important decisions that will impact the future of your business.

With this in mind we're sharing our new infographic, which has been designed to help take some of the emotion out of the hiring process.