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Hiring and Keeping the Best People 6. This book explains the essentials of what managers and business owners need to know about hiring and retaining good employees. | TheH iringProces s 27 Avoid These Two Hiring Mistakes Watch out for these commonly made mistakes when you make your hiring choices Desperately seeking the hottest prospects. Don t assume that that your firm has to hire thehotte best and lar igh test job candidates on he . Winning them may cost yourfirm more than it can comfortably afford. Their educational or pit rk i tonalOatyl s Ktur td. mays be more than what the jobinquestion actttkUb reouiets. They may be so confident of theiudetirabiO-y that tanco won t bring a healthy dose of eppreeiatfonaed gratitude to their new job at yetir fitne dOtOkllahdOsitScyie one eye out for the btggeebebeadusl. Hiring in your own image. AnotUba all-too-common mistake is to hire people who managers assume that they canOuitb strong departments or teams by gathering people whotilhavethyostnc steengihs and personalities those defined by the managers themselves. But remember Diversity inpenon ity wort styles and decision-making appR-tches . creates richness m a de ents raiaarn s-olturn increases the group s chundeioeu-ne-atingcreatiby ideas and solutions and lets members complementone another s strengths make up for one another s w-ako esset. 28 HiringandKeepingtheBestPeople starting date job title expected responsibilities compensation benefits summary time limit for responding to tender Don t Forget Process Improvement This chapter has described hirmg asa number of identifiable steps. In this sense hiring is similar to other business processes billing order fulfillment manufacturing customer service and so forth. Like other processes hiring should be the focus of continual improvement. Every major hiring experienc e should be followed bet a postmortem in which pbsticrpents evtuate ria eOfecSiveness of each process step pinpoint weakoesias endsbek theirsoep canter and identify opportunities iwe improvement. The individuals involved in hiring should ask How effective is our appxeacSs ws orfmrngjob .