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How to hire for potential
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Hiring for potential can be challenging. Figuring out the criteria for potential in each role can be tricky. Our team have detailed tips and guidelines on how to hire for potential.
1) Get personal with the role and measures to excel –
Understand the work and what core skills a candidate needs to excel in a role. Technical skills that a candidate needs to demonstrate. Then understand the soft skills a candidate needs to possess and then rank these soft skills in level of importance to the job. This way you can understand the measures to excel from most to least important.
2) Define what kind of potential you are looking for.
Take a look at the role and define behaviour, soft skills and core traits that relate to potential. Take a look at the rest of the business, are they any high performers in the role you are hiring for? These could provide a guide for the right combination of behaviour, soft skills and core traits.
3) Test for potential.
Have top performers complete a psychographic assessment, and ensure that it measures their behaviour, soft skills and traits. You can then compare findings and identify commonalities. While each candidate’s profile will be unique, certain traits will consistently emerge, as a predictor of success. For example, your best marketers may have different levels of leadership skills, but they may all have advanced creativity, problem-solving skills and logical reasoning. Leadership skills may become are marker for those types of roles.
3) Create a profile for future hires.
At Talent Trace, we are a 100% Black female owned business, we understand how to hire for potential first hand. Our team is led by an organisational Psychologist, who is both sensitive and passionate about matching people to culture and passion to purpose.
That’s when candidates and companies succeed.
We are well versed on employment equity and the need for diversity in the workforce. Our team are equipped to help you hire and talent manage equity candidates whilst aligning to organisational goals. Let our Talent Trace team help you hire for potential.
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