Recruitment doubts

0:03 Welcome to business purpose and Clarity with patreon your host we talk about startup live insights practical tips mistakes failures and everything between Building Company is a lot about hiring people finding the talent to grow with your company it's not a clear-cut case where it's easy to find exactly the skills you need at the time it's a more important more key to role more important it is that you you find exactly the right persons but what is that exactly that's the hardest part because there is no ideal person who can do the job you know where you describe it or it would be ideal for the company from perspective of the talents what you already have and the competencies you're so it's always a compromise when you're growing when you're doing stuff there's obviously the pain that.

1:06 Okay I need to do now something I should not do because we don't have that person or we just cannot do anything because we don't have the skill set at the moment so it's a rust job in a way to find a person oftentimes as well but good people don't queue outside of your company they're not waiting for you to put the sign that hey we are open for business please apply now if you take someone just because you need it and you have a pain to do oftentimes what I have found out is that you will regret it dearly afterwards because if if it's not a good match if the person is not a good match for your company maybe they're really good at some other company but not in not in the company or not in role you've been planning to have them you take them it takes time betraying them it takes a little bit of time to figure out whether they are good or not and if you start to get the feeling that okay this is not a really good match then you are in a situation where you.

2:12 Need to do something about it you are not actually getting the stuff done which is supposed to be done time is you probably have to start to look for another person and by the person who is at the moment filling the position so you having now the trouble of losing time losing money still not getting the job done and also the uncomfortable position of of letting someone go this is the reason why it's better to not fill a position if you're not feeling comfortable about the person or if you have a gut feeling that some intuitive sense that this is not exactly what we are looking for or I'm not sure about the person it's always better to say no if you are in doubt in the process of recruiting this is regular stuff hopefully you already know that but in case it's news for you you hire for the strengths you're.

3:18 Looking for the skill sets the talents what you need and you're looking for the best person who already have those so they ideally they should already have done it before so you're not actually making them to do something they haven't done already a lot of time that's not the case so people want to do new stuff or they want to learn or you know progress in their careers so they're not exactly in the states where they have already done it because it's kind of boring to do something you're already done ideally from the company's perspective you should have someone like that if they still motivated to do it but you should never just hire someone who is average who is not really good at what you need because then there's no chance that you will have a stellar performance and really have a great employee doing amazing stuff you want you are skipping out the amazing stuff if you're just getting someone who is average while you're recruiting look for those key components where they are really.

4:21 Critical that they are there and if you miss them then it's easy to pass because then it's just peaceful thinking you're not finding those qualities needed this is hard to admit remember you are in a time pressure to find someone not everybody is Snogging on your door and waiting for to get recruited so you're like okay is this person good enough to do the job it's still better to be without them being in the in the time I described a few minutes ago keep that in mind when recruiting and be brutally honest it's good to have other people helping you get the evaluation those people you trust so that you're not making the mistakes because it's really expensive to do mistakes with people but hey it's still life it happens better if you can learn and do better next time.