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Before
you even begin to write up a job ad or telephone a job agency to
fill your job vacancy, you need to ensure that you employ the
right type of person. To do this you need to consider two
important issues:
This may sound
obvious, but it needs to be thought through carefully or you might
end up re-advertising the job over and over again as your new
employee either can't cope or decides the job is inappropriate for
their career development.
Defining Personal Qualities
Firstly, you
need to define what qualities you believe a person should posses
in order for them to do the job you are offering. For example, a
physical job might require that a person needs to be physically
fit and able to lift weights of a certain excess weight; or you
might require the person to be able to speak fluent French.
Consider these
other personal qualities in relation to the job you are offering:
Qualifications
You need to consider why qualifications are important and
which qualifications would assist a new employee to do the
job proficiently. Remember an over qualified person may
decide to use you as a stepping stone for better conquests. A lot
can also be read into the educational career of an employee.
Qualifications can express the level of ambition or drive a person
has depending on their educational commitment.
Experience
Examine the amount of skills or knowledge the person would
need for the job. Balance the amount of training your
business offers to the amount of time they may need to work on
their own initiative, this will give you an fair indication as to
the experience needed for the job. Remember that certain
specialist jobs may not have vast numbers of experienced personnel
waiting to fill the post, so you may need to compromise - but how
much? Are you willing to take on employee with experience in
other similar fields or are you going to strive to find an
employee with specific experience? What are your reasons for
this?
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The more specialist the job, the more specialist training or knowledge
will apply. You now need to decide what specialist training or knowledge
would benefit your business. For example, if you are looking for an
experience personnel assistant who has specific experience in the IT
industry, you may need them to have specialist training or knowledge using
email.
Physical
Does the job require a lot of physical activity? - walking,
climbing ladders or lifting heavy loads? The you need to decide on
the physical fitness of your potential employee. Often a candidate
will express their physical activities in their CV - active member of a
rugby team, enjoy rock climbing or regular visitor to a gym. By
don't ask for excessive fitness where it is not necessary e.g. delivering
pizza's does not require a person can lift over 20Kg in weight!
Lifestyle
Characteristics
Often, the lifestyle of an employee can effect their commitment or
flexibility towards their job. Therefore it is important to consider
the lifestyle of your ideal employee. If the job required flexibility, (shift work,
regular overtime), then a person whose lifestyle involved frequent weekend
holidays or frequent sports tournaments across the country, might mean
they are not as flexible as you would like them to be. Often the
hobbies and interests reveals quite a lot of about a person and should not
be dismissed lightly.
Personality
If you are looking to employ someone who deals with the public or your
important clients on a regular basis, you do not want to employ a person
with an aggressive nature or is shy and introvert. Equally, you
don't want to employ someone with an outgoing nature and enjoys the company
of others to work on their own for long periods of time. A persons
personality is often underestimated or undervalued, yet it can be as
important as experience or qualifications.
Now you have drawn up an
employee profile, a picture should now start to immerge to the type of
person who would fit the bill. All you need to do know is draw up a
Job Specification which will take into account the personal qualities of
your employee.
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FURTHER CONSIDERATIONS:
Discrimination can often appear whether it is
intentional or not. If you are considering employing staff then it
is only proper to employ the staff that meet the job requirements in hand
and no more. It is against the law to discriminate.
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