Skills VS Personality

Do you want to choose a candidate that corresponds to 100% the skills and experience you are looking for but that only aligns with the culture of your business and the personality of 70 to 80%?

Or would you prefer someone who is perfectly suited to business culture and personality level, even if he did not fully correspond to the skills and experience you are looking for?

Or maybe the question should be, you hire according to what a candidate can do? Or who is a candidate and what he could TO DO?

I remember having helped an agency with very senior hiring many years ago, and they had a candidate who corresponded to 100% the skills and the experience they were looking for, but I advised them that the candidate was far from a culture and a personality adapted to the agency. They still did before with the candidate’s hiring because they thought it would be good because of their skills and experience. Three months later, I received an email from the MD saying “Phil, you were right, they simply do not integrate into our culture, in the future, we will focus much more on culture and personality”

– In the end, skills can be developed and advanced over time. Given the rapid pace of industry changes, some specific skills become obsolete anyway depending on the role.

– However, the personality and how this person influences the culture of your business, is much more difficult to change.

– Of course, some skills are not negotiable, but if you focus solely on the search for the candidate who can do anything, you could neglect individuals who could have a huge impact on your team and your business, by their personality and their culture, and their long -term potential. It should not always be to find unicorns, as I often say, if you can find a horse with a great personality, you can perhaps add the horn yourself? Or with the help of an external training – there is so much training in the skills available for anyone in any creative role or marketing, we know many training providers for different skills and disciplines, simply contact if you want us to introduce you to anyone.

Remember that finding the right personality does not concern the cloning of your existing people, it is a question of adding to the culture and dynamics of the team with someone who brings something new to the table.

In the end, why not move the objective of your hiring of talented personality and culture, combined with a set of essential skills stripped and to see how it has an impact on your long -term hiring success?

But how do you assess the culture and measure of your business against it?

Make sure to follow your key measures – retention rate and references, rotation rate, commitment and collaboration.

There are a variety of methods that you can use to assess the culture of your company, in particular surveys for employees, performance management tools, persons analysis tools, outing interviews, discussion groups and organizational assessment systems such as an organizational culture assessment instrument (OCAI) or a dashboard for commercial needs. Thanks to a combination of the above, you can build a clear image of the culture of your business, then be able to hire against it, while being able to articulate it to new potential employees. Tools like Thomas Perverse have been designed and built to allow employers to hire and keep the best people and are worth it to be considered. Thomas has been doing the sciences of people who help teams and businesses for over 40 years to prosper, and this is something we have used for many years. We made the profiling of the personality of new potential additions to team audits to understand more precisely the existing team in place, in order to find the best adjustment of the personality when adding the team. In the end, offering you a better understanding of yourself and your colleagues.

So, the next time you hire, you ask if you want to hire according to what the candidate did previously? Or who is the candidate and what he could do?

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