Trusting your employees

How do you choose employees you can fully trust? There is no one answer to this question. What is true for one person may be entirely false for the other. So how do I choose? Simple. The first step is a test. To see if there qualifications check out. It can be as simple as drive this letter from point A to point B and the candidate is timed. Not for speed but for safety. It can also be as difficult as solving a real world problem with less real world situations. On a job interview I was once asked to program in PHP, the song the 11 days of Christmas. Then asked what function I would need to enter to figure out how many total presidents at a certain area.

My point? You never know how you are going to test a candidate till you meet him/her and figure if there credentials they claim to have may match them or if they are bluffing. Unfortunately in this economy, people will write anything on paper to get a job. Sometimes you wish people would tell the truth but you never know. So testing a candidate is always the first thing I do.

From there, a look back on the candidates previous career in full starts. From their goals and ambishions, to their failures and success.

Step 3 for me is to qualify them for the current job, a full background check, drug screening, and credit check is in order. Not that finding anything on there disqualifies the candidate, but I like them to be truthful on the application, and you can't erase something on your record that easily. 

Step 4 is usually that I test them on a probationary job. Something the company may need. But that another person can do.

Depending on how they function with and without social interaction shows me if they qualify or not. If not the process ends here. If not and they are above the rest. Then we try them out, a 90 day probationary position is applied to them to see if they can do the work. If so then we can hire them. If not then it's on to the next applicant. It may sound like a rough and costly recruitment process. But choosing the right candidate always does.

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