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Picking the Right Job Candidate

How To Find and Hire Good People

From: Inc. Mag | By: Inc. staff

There comes a time in the life cycle of your business — if it’s a successful venture, anyway — when you can no longer juggle all the myriad tasks, big and small, that inevitably fall to the owner of a growing operation. This is just as well: Your core competency is your creative vision or your salesmanship or your motivational ability or whatever skill it is that’s most crucial to the survival and growth of your company. And chances are it’s not your talent for writing checks or sending out bills or balancing the books or hiring hourly help.

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As this article attests, there comes a time when you have to hire people. Given the axiom that good help is hard to find and that let’s say little things like literacy and basic math competency are not in the surplus, finding good help can be a tough job. As women often say about marriage-age men, all the good ones are taken.

Meanwhile you need people. Like some small businesses you become prisoners of your own success. A good thing. But still, you need people to help you out, and, most importantly, do the things you really need to do to keep your business growing.

So who do you hire. All kidding aside, well semi-kidding, there are competent people out there. Screen them carefully through a preemployment screening program. Run the appropriate background checks. And since background checks are so cost effective, don’t be afraid to spend the few extra bucks for a comprehensive employment screening package.

Hey, you can’t do everything. And if you try you will either wear yourself out or cause your business to fail. So make a plan, see who and what you need, and then you can choose carefully. With the job market down, it means there is a greater selection.

Check them out before you hire. Call Corra.

By Gordon Basichis

Gordon Basichis is the Co-Founder of Corra Group, specializing in pre-employment background checks and corporate research. He has been a marketing and media executive and has worked in the entertainment industry, the financial, health care and technology sectors. He is the author of the best selling Beautiful Bad Girl, The Vicki Morgan Story, a non-fiction novel that helped define exotic sexuality in the late twentieth century. He is the author of the Constant Travellers and has recently completed a new book, The Guys Who Spied for China, dealing with Chinese Espionage in the United States. He has been a journalist for several newspapers and is a screenwriter and producer.