{"id":2183,"date":"2015-01-15T10:00:37","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T18:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/berkonomics.com\/?p=2183"},"modified":"2015-01-20T09:23:05","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T17:23:05","slug":"hire-slowly-fire-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/berkonomics.com\/?p=2183","title":{"rendered":"Hire slowly. Fire fast."},"content":{"rendered":"

New hires can shore up the weak areas of a business in ways existing employees cannot, if hiring is done to fill true needs.\u00a0 Some employees lose their drive, or remain behind as the company grows, failing to gain the experience or knowledge needed to manage expanded processes or numbers of subordinates.\u00a0 Sometimes, there is just too much work for one person, and a second is needed to continue growth.\u00a0 And of course sometimes, a person leaves the company, creating a need to fill a hole.<\/p>\n

There is a rule few follow.\u00a0 Slow down and take more care in the hiring process.\u00a0<\/em> Vet the candidates well, even though you think that you do not have time enough to do so.\u00a0 Hiring\"EA-9817\"<\/a> is one of your most important duties, a way to increase the quality and productivity of your company\u2019s staff.\u00a0 Every hiring opportunity is a window to improve the company.\u00a0 Hire slowly, with the weight of that opportunity clearly in mind.<\/p>\n

[Email readers, continue here…]<\/em> <\/span>On the other hand, we are all guilty of hanging on to marginal employees for too long. \u00a0It is humane; it is easier to do nothing.\u00a0 It is less of a drag on your time to let marginal employees continue to plug along in their job.\u00a0\u00a0 We have all done this.\u00a0 And yet, we have all looked back after a painful separation of a marginal employee, and thought that we should have made the move to replace the person much earlier.\u00a0 We agree that the person would have benefited with a better fit, and the company would have surely performed better having hired the replacement earlier.<\/p>\n

It is human nature to hire as quickly as possible, to reduce the time taken from a busy day for interviews and reference checking.\u00a0 And it is human nature to hang on to marginal employees.\u00a0 Both are opposite the best practices of good management.<\/p>\n

Try to force yourself to slow down in the hiring process, and speed decisions you know will someday have to be made about marginal employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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