Another year has passed and its time to make your New Years resolutions. While others will be hitting the gym and chomping on nicotine gum, you can get a leg up on your competition with these hiring techniques to build your workforce in 2006.
Hire Slow, Fire Fast
The first and most important resolution you can make in the New Year is to stop waiting until the last minute to hire a new employee and stop letting the dead weight in your department drag the rest of the group down. Management is not an easy task, and hiring always seems to end up on the bottom of the to do list. Because of this, managers always tend to rush the hiring process since they, needed someone yesterday.
Resolve to make your life easier this year by being proactive when its time to hire a new employee. By taking the appropriate amount of time to hire talented candidates, youll save yourself the future management headaches that come from rushed hiring mistakes.
Similarly, commit to terminating those employees that arent meeting your expectations on a consistent basis. This resolution is a little harder to execute since these people rarely do anything to overtly attract your...