The cost of a bad or a wrong hire to
the company can go up to five times the employee's annual salary. Frankly, this
is not surprising as every employee has a significant impact on a company's
culture, performance and its eventual success. While this makes it crucial to
hire nothing but the best, it also stresses on the need to have a mechanism
that helps identify potential star performers before they are actually hired.
But there is a catch. It has been observed that in general terms, star performers are not active job
seekers. So it is nothing short of a challenge to get leads into passive
candidates.
There are strategies that help
ensure that your star performers can be identified. The techniques can be
applied during the screening process.
1. Discrete reference checks: This is the key tool in identifying
quality talent
2. Feedback: Customer/manager feedback can be another aspect
to identify high performers. But one must consider differentiating consistent
and random performers.
3. Performance
consistency: The consistent performers perform in any given situation. The
performance graph of random achievers is uneven as their performance falls under diverse and complex
situations.
Other ways to identify star performers include trends on performance incentives, percentage of increments, rewards and certificates and inclusion into key customer and projects.
As you know
the candidate act as fake during interview so interview must pay attention on
the few points during one o one –
1. Ask the right questions: Don't get caught in the web of
throwaway questions that invariably have little to do with the candidate's
ability to perform or his/her ability to fit into the company's culture. Instead,
have the candidate talk about instances where he/she has demonstrated
initiative or executed a project despite obstacles. Have the candidate talk
about his team's accomplishments in challenging times as a star performer
should be able to get his team to deliver.
2. Ask about professional achievements: This could include
queries regarding resourcefulness of a candidate - instances where the
candidate helped the employer save time and enhance reputation.
3. Ask about extra-curricular activities: All work and no
play make Jack a dull boy and it surely does not enhance his efficiency either.
When interviewing candidates, it is important to watch out for signs of him
being an extrovert, especially if the role demands interactions with internal
and external stakeholders.
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