Why applying for a job with your company turns me into a can of beans
Mirjam Johansson
?? Leader & Team Alchemist | Certified ICF Coach (ACC) ?? | Strategic HR & Sales Innovator | Driving Growth through transforming people ?? | Leadership Circle Profile? Coach.
How today’s recruiting is shopping for beans and why you‘re losing out on it.
As the world is spinning faster, the life span of people’s journey within your company is getting shorter. Recruiting is a costly process with high risk, as signing the wrong people will have a huge negative impact on your bottom line figures.
You need to find and recruit the right people. And make them stay.
This makes three things more important than others.
No.1 – change your recruiting process. Quit forcing applicants to fill in long forms, write identical CV′s, and add personal application letters full of clichés, is not working in your favor.
You are turning applicants into cans of beans.
We all crowd ourselves into your shelves of “future employment” and will be chosen by the base of former titles, age, gender, language skills and maybe a couple of good references. In the bean world this would translate into origin, label, ecology, shape, color and price.
So what is missing? Well, in your recruiting phase, it would be great to be able to detect agility, attitude and personality. Those qualities will get the job done. In the bean world it would be nice to know what the true flavor is and what that would contribute to the success of the whole meal.
A far stretch maybe, but I’m sure you know what I mean.
No. 2 – want to find new talent – look beyond. I have missed out on talent because I failed to look beyond. I got stuck in the old track of being able to mirror myself in the applicants.
What happened? Well, I had to do it all over again and learned my lesson. If you look beyond your first glance you will find that diversity can pay off. Not only diversity in ethnicity, gender, age, but in opinions, personalities and experience.
No. 3 – ask around for feedback. Are you managing the teams around you, ask around! There is no other risk in asking for feedback, than actually receiving feedback! A great way to improve not only the team output, but also your own managing skills.
The author of this post is a Stockholm based mother of 2 parent of 5, experienced X-shaped marketer, sales manager, CEO and consultant with an attraction towards guiding individuals and groups to next level of develUpment. Welcome to find our more.
Feeling curious? Visit: www.mirjamgrant.se to find out more.