Excerpt from Vanessa's Book: 101 Costly HR Mistakes...and How to Fix Them!
Last year, I ran into Joe at a networking event for one of the out-of-state chamber societies. Joe manages an organization with about 1,000 employees. He told me that he was having trouble with excessive new hire turnover. He shared that new hires “stayed about 2 months or 3 months and then left.” I was surprised to hear this, as Joe’s company appeared to be doing well. We talked for about an hour or so and our discussion led to my company performing an HR Audit to determine the root cause of the “new-hire turnover”.
Well, it didn’t take very long to reveal the issue…
The Mistake:
Joe’s HR Representative would receive a request to fill a position. For example, request to fill the Office Manager open position. The HR Representative would go to his computer; pull up the Office Manager job posting from the last Office Manger vacancy, post the position, interview, and hire the best candidate (per his opinion). You may be thinking, “what’s wrong with that?” Well, the problem is...
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(Disclaimer: This story is not about anyone in a particular and has been scrambled. Any similarity to any factual situation is purely coincidental.)