Devoted to Managers and those that seek to improve their management skills

You're trained, ready, have some experience and are ready to make a difference in your company. You're comfortable with the culture that you've help create and have set the feel and way the company or division your over will operate.

Now it comes down to one thing: You're company is growing and you need an influx of new blood. That feeling deep down in you is churning as you're afraid that when you hire, if it isn't done right, you'll dilute everything you've built and prepared, and it could become a terrible failure.

By the way, this isn't an illegitimate concern. Hire the wrong people and that very well could happen.

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Have you ever bought a business? Unless you're a person that likes to gamble with big stakes in Vegas, you want to get one that is functional, gives quality service, has great employees and has a great plan and system in place.
 
Basically you buy it and can walk into a situation that has minimum need for drastic changes, if any huge changes at all. In other words it is healthy.

Or maybe you've looked for a home and have done it so often that you eventually grow impatient and you buy one that is lower than the standard you were looking for and a little time later you're really sorry that you did it.

Hiring an employee is the same way. Sometimes you can go through a number of interviews and grow weary and discouraged from not finding the right fit, so you just hire someone to get a body in the position you're trying to fill. It doesn't take to long to realize when you've made a huge mistake.

I am going to give you a simple little saying to remember what not to do. If you remember it, you will eliminate the great majority of bad hires. Here it is:

Never hire someone that you need to mend.

That is all there is to it. I hope you don't think that this is too simple or maybe even cruel.

Think of it another way: Have you ever married someone that you secretly thought that once you were married you'd be able to change them? The same is true in business, it just isn't going to happen. Obviously marriage is a little different than business, but the stakes are still high.

The simple solution is not to hire until you know without a doubt that you've found the right person that will fit the job. If someone is a walking "crises" let them go on in their problems. You've met them, every single day in their life is filled with drama. But you're a manager, not a healer or worker of miracles. If you're interested in that do charity work, businesses don't exist for that purpose.

The point is that if you see some serious problems in people that could really be difficult for them to perform the job, don't hire them. To believe that you can train it out of them would be a mistake.

Hang it there and keep on interviewing for the right person until you find them. No matter how long it takes do it. That is one decision that you will never be sorry for.