Hiring the best applicants is like finding a needle in the middle of the ocean. It will never be easy and there’s only a pinprick of hope that you’ll succeed. However, if you have the perseverance to get what you want or what you need, there will always be a way.
So, if you’re having difficulty in hiring the best applicants for your beloved company, calm down because the help that you seek is only within your reach. Don’t turn the page and keep on reading – these are the things you should look for in every candidate.
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1. Excellent communication skills
A good job applicant has excellent communication skills – be it by an email, phone calls/messages, verbally, gestures, and so on. You can start observing his communication skills by the moment he sends an e-mail regarding the application, through checking his provided social media accounts, and most importantly by the time you get a chance to have a face to face interview with the applicant.
You have to pay attention to his confidence, and his deliberation – he must communicate effectively without prioritizing the use of ambiguous words. Hence, it’s his priority that his listener or the receiver of his message understands what he is trying to convey.
2. Dedication and passion
A worthy job applicant shows that he’s dedicated and passionate enough to get the job. You can attest that by giving him such challenging tasks and figure out how he’ll resolve it or get it done. It’s simply because, if he loves his job and what he does at work, he’ll always be looking forward to overcoming tasks that have been given to him no matter how hard it would be.
3. Loyalty and honesty to the company
It’s not only having someone to do a particular job in your company, but it’s also about finding someone who will willingly lay his loyalty and honesty during his tenure in the company. A worthy applicant or employee will never break the trust of the workforce nor break the rules of honesty.
4. Sense of cooperation
If work does exist, so does “teamwork”. Sometimes, there are company projects that you would prefer to be done by a team. So, if you’re considering a job applicant, look for in him that he’s willing and flexible enough to cooperate in workloads that require to be done as a team. The sense of cooperation must also be innate and evidently seen in him.
5. Compelling intelligence
Let’s be honest in here, one thing you’ll look for in every resume or curriculum vitae being sent to your company is the level of intelligence of every job applicants. Well, that’s a good-bad habit – you shouldn’t always rely on what’s provided on that paper. Hence, people have different aspect and level of intelligence, so instead of sticking with what’s on their submitted resumes, be very keen on their work performance or with their tests as a job applicant.
6. Reasonably competitive
Well, the business world is evidently about competing to be on top of the world market or to be known by the consumers. A worthy job applicant will be reasonably competitive when it’s needed the most. He will do his very best to get the assigned job done on or before time and do everything to excel in his career.
7. Consistency at work
It’s understood that all hired applicants undergo a probationary period before they get hired as regular employees. So, if you have a newly hired employee in the workforce, you should look for in him if he’s consistent in everything he does at work. Why? It’s simply because, you need someone who didn’t just apply for work to earn money, whom you need is someone who enjoys and fulfills his job.
Now that you’ve been given the answers, I hope that it would be easier for you to hire or choose your future set of employees. Take note that these are only 7 out of hundreds of characteristics you should look for in a job applicant. Also, don’t disregard asking for HR support since they know what’s best for your company when it comes to employing workers.
AUTHOR BIO:
Kath Ramirez is a writer in profession and passion. She believes that everybody can write but not everyone can write with good content and effectively reach out for their audience. Kath believes that writing is one of the million rays of the sun to relieve stress and anxiety. Aside from writing, she indulges herself to reading random books, photography, dancing, and eating pastries which her little sister makes most of the time. She is now a writer for particular Australian and United Kingdom-based companies.