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Always hire someone better than you<br />
Recruiting staff is never easy. Right now, if you advertise a vacancy, you’ll<br />
have a different problem. You’ll have to nail-up the letter box and turn-off<br />
your in-box. You’ll be inundated. If you used to expect a handful or a score<br />
of applications – stand-by for hundreds. If you used to get hundreds,<br />
you’re going to get thousands. Such is the job market.<br />
Nice position for a prospective employer to be in? Well, of course.<br />
However, you’ll have to have some pretty good systems in place to make<br />
sure you sieve, sort and select the candidates. It is very easy to miss a good<br />
prospect.<br />
Right now you’re going to find some candidates with a fantastic<br />
qualifications, experience and background. Spooky! Some of them will<br />
look like your boss!<br />
The temptation is not to hire someone who might be a risk to you. Wrong.<br />
Here’s something to remember.<br />
Always hire someone better than you, step back and take the credit. Do it<br />
the other way around; step forward and take the blame.<br />
Always go for talent and always hire someone with an imagination. Bill<br />
Gates says the most valuable asset that Microsoft has is the imagination of<br />
the staff.<br />
He’s right. If you can imagine it, it can happen. Making things happen is<br />
the easy bit. The imagination bit is the hard bit.<br />
Are you the ‘imaginator in residence’?<br />
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