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It’s not uncommon for people to present really well in a job interview, be offered the position and then later be found ‘wanting’ when it comes to fulfilling the particular role they’ve been recruited for.

Similarly, there are many people who don't present well in interviews and subsequently miss out on jobs, who actually have a lot of substance in practice and would be valuable team members.

So how do we take the emotion out of the recruitment process and minimise the impact of our own biases and prejudices when dealing with these different personality types? 

In this video I'm sharing 4 tips to help remove that bias from the hiring process.

Topics: infographic, Video, business advice, Business advisor, staff recruitment, hiring staff, James Price, Parramatta, Orange NSW

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

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.

In this video I outline our 7 'golden rules' for successful hiring.

Topics: Employment and recruitment, Advice, infographic, cheat sheet, Video, staff management, Business advisor, staff recruitment, hiring staff

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.

In the following video I list 3 key tasks you should undertake before you begin the interview process.

Topics: infographic, Video, staff management, business advice, Business advisor, staff recruitment, hiring staff

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.

Topics: infographic, staff management, business advice, Business advisor, staff recruitment, hiring staff

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.

Topics: Employment and recruitment, Advice, infographic, cheat sheet, staff management, Business advisor, staff recruitment, hiring staff

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.

Topics: infographic, business advice, staff recruitment, hiring staff