Identifying Top Talent
Recruiting top talent for your organization, especially for those hard-to-fill positions, starts with giving yourself the right foundations to help you first identify top talent for the roles you want to fill.
In this chapter, we will cover simple shifts and changes you can make to improve your recruiting process. We’ve rounded up five “panel of experts” to bring you the latest in what’s working now for others when it comes to identifying top talent for your building products and commercial construction companies.
Embrace a Talent Mindset
Mindset Shift #1: Top leaders must be actively involved
Jerry Bernhart shares: “Top leaders must be actively involved in hiring decisions.”
“There are many companies I know where Vice-Presidents never interview manager-level candidates. At companies where talent is truly a high priority, senior executives get involved by interviewing finalists and voicing their opinions, but they leave the final hiring decisions to the immediate supervisors. This helps ensure that the talent standard is being applied, and it sends a message to department heads that top management is setting the drumbeat.
Leaders must instill a talent mindset in the organization. As a leader, it is your job to demonstrate this mindset through your actions and behavior. Every meeting of department heads and every meeting with clients is an opportunity to talk about this new talent mindset. When was the last time you held a staff meeting for the express purpose of brainstorming new ideas for attracting talent?”
Mindset Shift #2: Display the correct attributes as a leader
Dan Holstein shares: “to have great people, you have to become a great leader.”
In his video: Attracting ‘A Players’, Dan states that many business owners complain about their staff and lament that they can’t find good people; whereas you should be asking yourself: what attributes should I be displaying as a leader that would make this amazing person want to go above and beyond for me and my company?
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Create A-Player Profiles
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