One Hiring Step You Can't Miss - Eventual Millionaire :Eventual Millionaire

Hiring. There are so many nuances and pieces, and lately, I've been helping my clients do a lot of hiring and that's a wonderful thing. There's a lot of amazing talent out right now, especially with the craziness that's going on with the loss of jobs, but what that means is we have to do a more rigorous process to really find those "A" players that we want. And one piece that I feel like people don't really pay attention to as a business owner, if you've been doing lots of hiring and you're sort of in HR, it's easy to know this. But business owners don't really understand how important references are.

So do you actually check the references? And if you don't you really should be. And I want to give you a couple of tips on reference checking because it will really help you avoid potential miss hires, and you know how costly in time and money those are. So, I highly recommend asking for references pretty early on also, especially when they start getting into the final stages. You really want to make sure that you've got the list of references and I want you to call them. Don't just email, call them, so you can hear the inflection and the tone that they have because usually, they want to say nice things. They know they don't want to make them not get the job, so they won't come out and be like, "Don't hire them." But if it was the manager and they're like, "Well, they were good at these things. They weren't so good at these things."

Ask what their weaknesses were, ask what they had to reprimand them on, ask as many questions as you can, if your state allows, to really find out if they would hire them again or not. It will save you so much time and money because a lot of people can really pass interviews. They can know what you want them to say and say it, and maybe be in more of a vague tone than actual, the sort of the tactical stuff that they've done.

So if they've gotten through that far, make sure, make sure, make sure you are calling all of their references. Have you usually do that? Do you usually avoid it? Tell me in the comments below what you feel like about references. Or if you have any great questions that you always as for references, go ahead and post those in the comments below too. Have an amazing day!