Archive for November 2nd, 2007
Further Thoughts on Employee Selection
If companies are trending to select employees based on a person/future fit strategy to create the best, long-term workforce alignment, what are some of the steps are necessary to accomplish this?
Let’s start with your company’s strategy – how do you define it? How many of your employees understand it and connect personally and professionally to it? Do they understand your corporate mission, value, and purpose?
One obvious, but often overlooked step – ask them? If they understand, ask them how they found out and ask them further how it motivates them personally and professionally each and every day. If they don’t understand, ask them what caused them to select your company to work for in the first place, and then ask them what motivates them to perform their work on a daily basis? Oftentimes you can collect good responses from an informal survey, asking newer as well as longer term employees these questions.
Once you have this information you are either very confident that you have the right kind of people – or you are not. And, if you are one of the few companies that do not have that strategy and that mission, value, and purpose clearly defined and understood for yourself, well, you have your work cut out for you.
Please let me know how your company stacks up with a sound corporate strategy and that mission, value, and purpose.
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