How to hire employees

Here's how to hire better employees. And yes, I know something about hiring employees because I own a recruiting firm. We hire hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of employees a year for companies. And these are some of the biggest tips that I have for hiring great employees. And some of the biggest tips I have for staying away from bad employees. So, the number one thing that we look for that strikes us on any resume that we get is does the employee hop around from job to job? If you see a resume where that employee is at a job every year, it is a problem. It means that either a they don't know how to commit or b their previous employers did not see enough value in them to keep them around. So number one, you want to make sure that the employee is not what we call in our industry a jumper. Number two, do they have relevant work experience? It's very difficult to train people. It takes time, it takes money, it takes energy, and you don't know if that person's going to be successful. It's literally like gambling. So, you want to make sure when you're hiring somebody that they have relevant employment experience. What they've done in their past is similar to what you want them to be doing for you in your company. Number three, you want to make sure that you're paying your employees properly. I was speaking yesterday to a law firm and he was complaining about his turnover. He said, "Why would people come work for me if they can make the same amount of money lifting boxes for Amazon?" And I said to him, "That's exactly the point. Instead of paying them the same wage that they're going to be able to get in some Amazon warehouse where they're not going to have to use their mind and they only have to use their hands, pay them a little bit more. Pay them an extra $10,000 a year and you're going to get more quality employees because they're going to want to hang on to the job because the wage is good. You cannot hire good people for cheap wages. Good people know what they're worth. And by the way, it costs money. Every time you have to fire somebody, every time somebody quits, you have no idea how much money that is costing your company. There is a hidden cost in every business that very few companies take into account, which is the cost of firing an employee or an employee that quits. It cost anywhere from 10, 15, sometimes even $20,000 to have to replace an employee. Why? Because you paid them for the three, four, five, six months that they were with you. And now you have to go and hire somebody else and train that person for 3, four, 5, 6 months until they get the job and until they're up and running. Not to mention the lost productivity, not to mention the lost morale, not to mention the fact that you are being frustrated because you don't have a performing employee in that seat that really needs to be filled. And probably my biggest piece of advice to you when you're going to hire great employees is you have to ask them this one question, most important question, you have to go through their resume job by job starting in chronological order from their first job. And you have to ask them every single job, why did you leave? Why did you leave? Why did you leave? I've never met somebody till this day. I'm in the recruiting business. We hire hundreds of employees. We interview thousands of candidates. Nobody in my life has ever been told me I left because I got fired. They always said because there was restructuring. They always said because the company closed. They always said because they didn't get a performance bonus. Whatever it is, nobody was ever fired. But the true the truth of the matter is is people get fired all the time. And you want to understand why they were fired. You want you want to understand what led to their dismissal from that company because what you will see is patterns. If somebody's telling you for example, I was let go because restructuring, dig into that. Don't let them get away with that. Understand what that means. Why did they restructure? Why did your job become obsolete? Why were you fired? Say to them flat out, I know you say it's restructuring, but really what it means is that you got fired. Why did you get fired? And you want to start to see all of the patterns. People are people. There is patterns in their behavior. And you want to unlock the patterns of why these people are being let go. In my company, we are professionals at getting to the bottom of all of these stories. We are professional at understanding who is a great employee and who is not. So, when you work with us, we are able to help you bring in great talent right from the get- go. When you put gold in, you get gold out. You put, excuse my language, crap in, you're going to get crap out. So, if you're interested in working with my recruiting firm, I would love to help you. Reach out to me, send me a direct message, leave a comment. We would love to work with you to help you hire your next great hire. Good luck and go build your businesses.