SME companies want employees with excellent skills with a great attitude
to work. It is as simple as that. They want employees who can help them to grow
and improve their business, who can work on their own without too much checking
and correction. Who have initiative and come up with simple ideas on how to
improve their work and their output. They want employees who make things easier
and not more difficult. And they are right. Life is difficult enough at the
moment for SME companies and any assistance employees can give to make the life
of the Owner/Manager easier is much appreciated. If only employees performed
their job well that would be a great help. The truth is that getting it wrong
and hiring the wrong candidate can be very costly and no company can afford
this in these economic challenging times.
How do you get those employees with the right skills and attitude? One
method is to look for them when you are recruiting for new staff members. The
selection of new recruits is an important moment when you are deciding does
this employee have the right skill set and the right attitude to work. Many SME
managers miss that opportunity. Why? Because they haven’t really thought about
what they are looking for. They haven’t identified the skills set and attitudes
are which are required to be successful in their job. They are busy and just
hope they will meet the right candidate at the interview. Well it takes more
than that to be successful in recruiting new employees.
A HR consultant who specialises in SME companies can be very helpful in
putting a recruitment process in place which solves your recruitment of new
employees. At the end you have a process in place which delivers you the right
candidates for the right investment while you have been trained on how to
interview candidates and decide which are the best for your company. Campbell
International can help you to organise your recruitment process and find those
candidates which will help to develop your company.
Recruitment is a major investment in any company. The average industrial
wages in Ireland is €36,000 and multiply that by 10 years. As you could expect
that an employee would stay with you for at least 10 years and you are talking
about a major investment of €360,000. A lot of Owners / Managers would
seriously deliberate before making such an investment and look at it from all
sides. Yet I know managers who would hire an employee in an afternoon without
giving it much thought. Human Resources is a serious business which can develop
your company into a serious player on the market.
Ignoring human resources can
fatally harm your company and send the company to the graveyard...
