A Step-By-Step Guide for Hiring Your Next Team Member
Hiring a new team member, especially if it’s your first time doing so, can feel overwhelming – but it doesn’t have to!
By following a plan, you can make hiring a fun and rewarding process for your business. It also means that you can feel confident that your new team member will be exactly the right person to help you move forward and achieve your long-term goals.
That’s why we’ve put together this four-part step-by-step guide for hiring that you can follow when creating your new hiring process.
Ready to dive in? Let’s get started.
A Step-By-Step Guide for Hiring Your Next Team Member
Part 1: Define the position
The very first step in any hiring process is to figure out exactly who you’re looking for. That means you need to have a good understanding of which tasks you will be delegating to your new team member as well as the sort of person that will fit in with the team and deliver the results you need.
For example, if you’re looking for an assistant, do you want someone who is a confident self-starter who can help you turn chaos into a well-run business inside and out? Or would it be more helpful to have an assistant who can follow a set process and has experience working with customers?
For more detail on this first step, check out our blog Hiring For The First Time? Make Sure You Begin With These Three Steps
Part 2: Attract candidates
Once you’ve defined the position you’re hiring for and the person you want to hire, it’s time to get that information out to potential candidates.
Create a job posting covering all of those important points, remembering to include information about your company values and mission so that you’ll attract candidates who share these with your business.
Next, decide where you’re going to post the information to attract your candidates and start posting!
Part 3: Narrow down the candidates
If you’ve completed Parts 1 and 2, you should quickly begin to receive applications from lots of qualified candidates. This is where the hard work begins!
You need to have a process to help you narrow down all the candidates you receive to one person you’re going to hire. This will likely include resume reviews and interviews.
Use the decisions you made in Part 1 to figure out which of the candidates deserve further consideration based on their experience and which ones should exit the process.
Keep refining your criteria until you are left with the perfect person to join your team!
Part 4:Make your hire and welcome them to your team
The final part of the process is where many business owners get stuck : making the final decision about which of the candidates is the right one. If you’re finding it hard to make this call, remember that if you don’t make the decision, you won’t get the help that your business needs.
It might be scary, but just remember how great it will feel to have that support in your business and to be able to tick off those goals of growing your revenue, being able to work less, or any other goals that this new hire will allow you to achieve.
Once you’ve taken that big step of deciding who your new hire will be, don’t forget to welcome them to the team and help them to get off to a strong start in their new role!
Want to learn more about our step-by-step hiring process?
While this four-part plan has given you a great overview of how to create a hiring process for your business, you can learn the eight specific steps that make up that process by downloading your copy of The Hiring Checklist: How to Hire the Right Team for Your Growing Business.
Learn how to create a process that not only leads you to a pool of your ideal candidates but also points you directly to the person you should hire because they can succeed in the role (and avoid hiring someone simply because they had a pretty resume!)
