Nobody Trained Your Hiring Team How to Hire

But you assigned them the responsibility to attract, assess, and add new players to your team.

Think about every other critical business skill your people have mastered:

Sales.  You trained them.  Role-played.  Coached them until they mastered it.
Customer Service.  You set standards.  Gave them scripts.  Held them accountable.
Technical Skills.  Certification courses.  Continuing education.  Required.

But hiring?

You assigned people to interview candidates and assumed they'd figure it out.

Here's what actually happens instead:

1.     Your leaders write job descriptions by copying something generic from Indeed.  "A" players scroll right past them.

2.     Interviewers walk in with few questions planned.  Most won't probe for weaknesses or confirm culture fit.

3.     Hiring decisions are made on gut feel and hope instead of verified performance data.

4.     Onboarding means "Here's your desk.  Here are some videos.  Good luck."

Nobody taught your hiring team employee hiring best practices.  For instance, HOW TO:

1.     Write strategic job descriptions that attract top talent. 

2.     Assess culture fit without bias. 

3.     Verify past performance claims instead of trusting résumés. 

4.     Structure interviews that reliably predict future performance. 

5.     Make offers top candidates are excited to accept. 

6.     Onboard new hires so they're productive in weeks, not months.

You're expecting untrained people to make $50,000-$1,000,000 decisions

And you're shocked when it doesn't work out.

Here's the truth:  

Great leaders hire great people.  But they don't do it by accident.  They develop a disciplined hiring system and train everyone on their team how to hire better.

You can't build a great team with an untrained hiring team and a weak hiring process. 

But you can do something about it.

1.     Improve your system. 

2.     Train everyone who interacts with candidates. 

3.     Develop this critical leadership competency constantly.

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