And The One Fact of Life You Need To Learn Early.

In America Douglas Martin claimed the following achievements in his résumé which he submitted to the Fort Wayne Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

• Trauma surgeon in Albuquerque
• Vascular surgeon at the Mayo Clinic
• Flight surgeon for the Tomcat wing of the U.S. Navy Medical Corp.
• Served in Vietnam for 18 months as a surgeon
• Has a master’s degree in public health from the University of Massachusetts
• Graduate from medical school at “John” Hopkins University
• Was awarded the following military honors – Navy Cross (in lieu of the Medal of Honor)
• Legion of Merit, the Distinguished Flying Cross
• Is an Army basic parachutist (1)

In truth Douglas had none of the titles he claimed to have and yet if the Fort Wayne Veterans Affairs Medical Center had hired him he could have been given a role undertaking various medical procedures. You might think why would anyone claim to have titles they haven’t earned especially medical titles? Well it is not unusual, there is an epidemic of employees willing to do whatever it takes to infiltrate venerable organizations.

Consider these facts 

The One Recruitment Word You Need To Know Above All Others.

The one recruitment word you need to know above all others is diligence. Business owners and managers often let their guard down because they are tired and need to find someone in the next seven days, but this thinking is a recipe for disaster.

“A Bad Beginning Makes a Bad Ending”

Euripides
Greek Writer 

The One Recruitment Fact Of Life You Need To Know.

The recruitment fact of life you need to know is that there is an epidemic of employees willing to do whatever it takes to infiltrate vulnerable organizations. It is absolutely critical you have a well tried and tested recruitment and selection process to stop incompetent and under committed people from infiltrating your company.

Crucial fact:

Only 5% of companies have a human resource department that actually measure how well their recruitment process works and therefore once the infiltrator is in your business it is up to you to detect the miss fit because 95% of businesses do not have a process that will accurately detect a recruitment mistake.

How to eliminate deceitful employees from infiltrating your workplace.  

1. Use a recruitment and selection process that is tried and tested.

2. Have A grade personnel use the recruitment and selection process, because B grade selectors are NOT able to recruit A grade staff. 

3. Have a measuring process in place that tells you quickly and clearly if the new employee is likely to be a high performer who will get on with you, your team and your customers and strive to achieve your business goals.      

(1) Federal court documents

(2) Hughes, T. and Jowitt, M. (1996) ‘Managing people – recruitment, selection and induction’, McGraw Hill Australia p 88

Committed to hiring the right person the first time round and recovering all the costs of the campaign!

.David Osborne

And four emotions you need to avoid if you want to survive.

How do you rate your health? If you rate your health as very good give yourself a five out of five. If you rate your health as very poor give yourself a one out of five.

Why is this important? It’s important because research indicates the lower you rate your own health, the earlier you will die even if you currently have no disease or risk factors. This self rating system has been research and validated by studying over 44,000 identical twins. 

So how does rating ourselves impact our health?

It has been discovered that how we feel about our situation in life has a big impact on us physically. Therefore if we feel bad about a certain situation for example lame and lazy staff who are unproductive and drain your energy, then your thinking will trigger an emotional reaction that may well be prematurely aging you and even slowly killing you.

 “Thoughts and emotions are interwoven: every thought, however bland, almost always carries with it some emotional undertone, however subtle”

Restak

How quickly thoughts can kill you.

In 1964 a newspaper headline read “Man Freezes to Death in Refrigeration Car”. The man had become trapped inside when the door accidentally slammed on him. When he was found the next day he had all the physical symptoms of having been frozen to death. Yet the refrigeration unit was switched off and at no time had the temperature been at or even close to freezing. The man had in one night talked himself into dying. Your thoughts have a dramatic impact on your body.

“Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 The emotional black spots.

There are four emotions that have the potential to send a flood of toxic chemicals through your brain that not only increase the risk of memory loss but also prematurely age you and reduce your life expectancy. These emotional black spots are depression, anxiety, anger and low self esteem. Since 1929 the life span of Oscar winners have been measured against other actors and the findings suggest that winning an Oscar increases your life expectancy by 3.9 years because it elevates the recipient’s self esteem and reduces the prevalence and the impact of the four emotional black spots.

 How business owners can protect their brain

Today no business owner should have to put up with prolonged worrying about staffing situations that make them prone to bouts of depression, anxiety, anger and low self esteem. There are now brilliant psychometric tests and selection processes that can eliminate the risk of ever hiring a stressful staff member and it makes more than complete sense to use them. The focus of the Profitable Personnel recruitment process is to assist business owners to find staff that will not only build their business, but will do so in a stress free manner that enhances the business owners quality of life both financially and emotionally.

Committed To Building Your Business With The Right Staff.

David Osborne

www.profitablepersonnel.com

That Will Save You Time, Energy and Money.

Business owners and CEO’s have three extremely valuable BUT LIMITED assets and that’s time, energy and money. The strange thing is that again and again I hear of business owners and senior managers spending their valuable time and energy trying to train their staff to do the right things at the right time to get the right result. Then as the months go by and nothing really changes they realize they are wasting their resources because they have not asked themselves two crucial question and they are: 
 
- How do you I know if the employees I am training want to learn and improve?
- How do I know if the employees I am training want to use this knowledge to improve my business or my department?
 
This is a waste of resources and damages their health that’s guaranteed, there is enough research now to prove that anxiety, stress or anger not only prematurely age you, but they also shorten your life span.
 
So how do you know if an employee actually wants to learn and improve and how do you know if they actually want to use this knowledge to achieve your business goals?
 
Answer and tip one: Ensure you check the commitment of an employee during the selection phase by getting them to fill in a rigorous selection criteria.
 
The benefit of a selection criteria form is:

A. You will immediately find out whether the applicant is really committed to your position if they can be bothered to fill in the selection criteria and send it back to you. Seven out of ten applicants will not return the selection criteria and this is great because these people are not driven, motivated and committed enough to fill in the form and these people are not the people you want in your business.   

B. The selection criteria can collect a lot of objective relevant information about a candidate. This information is directly related to what you need to find out about this person

C. The selection criteria force the applicant to ask themselves. “Do I really want to do this role?”

D. The selection criteria give you great insight about the candidate’s ability to read instructions, understand them, reflect on the content and then comply with your directions. Candidates who fill in the selection criteria are far more likely to achieve results for you than those who can’t find time to fill in the form.

Now how do you know if the employees you are training want to use this knowledge to improve your business or your department?

Answer and tip two: There are some simple but brilliant psychometric tests on the market that clearly show if the candidate you are reviewing or even if an existing employee is truly interested in self improvement. Chet Holmes one of America’s leading sales and marketing guru says:

“You’d be crazy not to use these personality assessment services today,
they are scary accurate and can save you tens of thousands in hiring and management.”

Why waste time, energy and money when you can now easily find out:

·          If the employees YOU are training want to learn and improve?….And
·         If the employees YOU are training want to use this knowledge to improve your business?

Committed To Building Your Business With The Right Staff.

David Osborne

www.profitablepersonnel.com