Express Employment Professionals
A CV tells a hiring manager a few distinct things about a potential candidate. With a CV, you can tell where a person worked before coming to your company, how long they spent in each job, and which official certifications they have. That’s about it.
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Unfortunately, none of those things are enough to guarantee a good fit for your company. In fact, the number one reason new hires don’t work out has nothing to do with previous experience or technical qualifications. Most hires fail because of poor cultural fit.
The problem with relying on CVs
The idea that technical expertise or a background in a certain industry can 100% guarantee a successful hire is extremely outdated. Currently, 73% of professionals leave jobs because they just don’t feel comfortable with the internal culture. What’s more, countless experts agree that people don’t leave “bad jobs”, they leave “bad bosses” and bad internal experiences.
The workplace is full of numerous moving parts, all of which have a distinct job to play. However, if those parts don’t mesh with each other, nothing really gets done. Unfortunately, the old-fashioned hiring process, focused primarily what the resume says, paves the way to hiring missteps.
As intrinsic as they may seem to the hiring process, CVs are more hindrance than help to the average hiring manager. They convince HR experts they can pick the perfect person for a role based on their previous job roles alone and cause us to forget about the value of cultural fit.
So, what if we forgot the CV?
The average cost of a bad hire can be around 30% of the employee’s potential first-year earnings. If you’re hiring a staff member with a $100,000 annual wage, picking the wrong one could cost you about $30,000. That’s a lot of cash to balance on the insights you can get from a single piece of paper.
So, what if we turned the hiring process upside down entirely? Instead of trying to match words on a CV to words on a job description, why not match characteristics in an employee, to the values that make your team thrive?
Anyone can write a CV that checks all the right boxes for a role, simply by copy-pasting the keywords from your job description into their application. Focusing on CVs alone mean you miss the little details in the hiring process which make all the difference between an “ok” hire, and an “amazing” one.
Hire a person – not a CV
A member of staff isn’t a conglomeration of previous work roles and time spent in classes. Your employees need a certain selection of technical skills, and experience working in specific environments – but they need a lot more than that too.
A good employee is someone who can do the job given to them – a great one is someone who can help your business to actively grow, by doing the right work. Companies have begun to recognize this and introduce new methods of evaluating and understanding potential candidates as a result. Now it’s up to hiring managers to make the transition too!
