My sneaky recruitment trick

I recently had two different clients each looking for an Executive Assistant.

Client 1: The most organised person you've ever met. Think… every i dotted and all the t's crossed!

Client 2: Completely all over the place and desperate to get help to get organised.

Now, since both clients wanted an Executive Assistant, you’d think we’d be looking for the same type of person, right?

I mean both roles are Executive Assistants.?

But NO!

Client 1 needed someone who would be helping them take some tasks off their plate.

Client 2 on the other hand, needed someone very organised who’d get their processes in order!

When scoping out a job role, we don’t just determine what the candidate needs to do. Or what title they’ll be using.

We want to know who they are.

We want to find someone who's going to fit not only the role but will also fit in with your business culture and your personality.

Are they better suited to be an organisational master, whipping processes into shape, or do they work best hand-in-hand with their client, collaborating and bouncing off of each other?

But we also want you to fit them.

It’s really important that your new team member wants to work with you, and that you like them and connect, and want to work with them too.

For example, when we held interviews for these two Executive Assistant roles, we asked the candidates which of the two they’d prefer. But because they were smart and wanted a job, they said, “Oh, I could do both.”

We had to pin them down and emphasise that they had to choose the one they preferred because then we would know what type of role they liked irrespective of their skills.

That’s because the happier your team member is in their role, the more likely they’ll stay with you.

And you’re more likely to enjoy working with them too.

Working in your business should still be fun after all (at least most of the time).