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