Don t oversell


Don't oversell

This can lead to one of the great recruitment bear traps, the tendency to oversell the job in the hope of snaring the candidate. In the heady days of the late 1990s this was a regular occurrence. It is not a good idea. Any smart new employee will quickly realise that they have been ˜sold' the wrong deal, which means that the whole recruitment process has to begin again. Don't fall into this trap, it really isn't worth it, no matter how much you want the candidate to join up. Remember, if we agree that the person who is going to join you is bringing his lifestyle to your business, when he finds it not only doesn't fit now, but never will, he or she will be gone all too quickly.

Say ˜hi' to the alumni

Richard Savage, former head of HR at market research giant A.C. Nielsen, and now an organisational consultant linked to the FutureWork Forum, has a great trick up his sleeve to sway the dithering candidate who is not sure whether to join up or jump off - wheel in an ex-employee. ˜This is more powerful than any would-be coworker,' advises Savage, ˜it sends a powerful message that if this ex- employee is still prepared to say what a good time they had - even after they have left - and the company is happy to let them do that, then it must be a pretty open place to work.'




The New Rules of Engagement(c) Life-Work Balance and Employee Commitment
Performance Tuning for Linux(R) Servers
ISBN: N/A
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 131

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