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Onboarding new employees. Learn from my mistakes.

This year I had the pleasure of hiring a new graduate consultant at Saville. With just over a year of management experience, this was a fairly daunting task.

I haven’t managed that many people before and I didn’t have that much experience onboarding people. I basically recounted the experiences I’d personally had (some of which were non-existent) and cherry-picked the best parts. On reflection, I didn’t think about the fact that these experiences were very traditional and administrative focused.

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Recruit your next employee fairly and objectively

recruit on talent not likability

A struggle faced by many managers responsible for hiring new employees is to recruit fairly and objectively to allow all applicants an equal chance. While the recruitment and selection effort begins with the best intentions, personal bias can inadvertently find its way into the decision-making process. This can result in a situation that we as consultants see quite often; “We really like the candidate though, shouldn’t we just give them a chance?”

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