In fact, one of my partners now believes that employee turnover costs American businesses over $340 Billion dollars per year.
So hiring the right person is indeed a critical component of a managers success, how do you evaluate that success (or failure)?
Kris Dunn, writing in Fistful of Talent, outlines some essential values when determining how well a manager hires, including a reference to the recent Jack Welch article in Business Week.
Tracking the hiring success of your managers is essential. And if a manager has a poor record of hiring, then the opportunities for training and development are ripe:
- Teaching the fundamentals of interviewing;
- Having that manager observe other interviews;
- Conducting performance appraisals of not just the newly hired employee, but also the hiring manager 90 days after the hire.
2 comments:
hi eric - thanks for highlighting fistful of talent! i can't take credit where you gave it to me though... that entry on measuring a hiring manager's effectiveness was actually written by kris dunn who manages the blog. :)
cheers!
jessica lee
I stand corrected and have made the adjustments.
However, I meant what I wrote about you and your blog: I suspect I will be highlighting you more and more - and I know you have an incredible book inside of you - if not now, very soon.
EWS
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