Hire Insight Group Explains What to Look for When Hiring Your Next Employee

Before any good hiring decision can be made, it is critical that employers understand the target role and know what to look for in an ideal job candidate. Unfortunately, most make their hiring decisions without such information, or depend on traditional outdated and impractical job descriptions. In both cases, being misinformed can lead to serious hiring mistakes.

In response, the Hire Insight Group has developed an improved approach to describing jobs, one that provides all of the information employers need to effectively source, screen and evaluate potential hires. A new white paper, available for free download on their website (www.hireinsightgroup.com), provides further details.

The product of this approach is a Hiring Profile, which is a document that provides a clear link between the position and the strategic organizational objectives it helps achieve, a process-based map of job tasks, and a set of performance metrics designed to objectively measure success in the role. It also provides a detailed outline of the knowledge, skills, abilities and other attributes future employees need in order to perform tasks at a high level, and offers insight into how to measure these competencies in potential hires.

The approach results in a much more structured and useful profile of the job, one that hiring managers can use to quickly and easily identify high-potential job candidates, says Chad Hayward, Assessment Director for the Hire Insight Group.

We've found it to be particularly useful for small and medium-sized business, considering the straightforward, inexpensive, and intuitive nature of the approach, he adds.

People who will get the most value out of the paper are those who do not have job descriptions or hiring profiles and want to learn how to develop them, or feel that their current job descriptions are complex, vague, or generally unhelpful when making human resources decisions. Otherwise, anyone who is unsure of what to look for in a high-performing employee is likely to find the approach beneficial.