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Assess Strengths Before You Hire

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Hiring the right staff is one of the most important decisions you will make for your childcare business. In fact, bringing on someone who is not the right fit can hurt your operations and negatively affect overall morale.

On the other hand, when you hire someone who is truly the right fit, the difference is clear. You can see their strengths, confidence, and positive impact on your team.

Before hiring your next staff member, ask yourself an important question: Do you assess the strengths of your new hires?

In my experience, I have sometimes relied on what applicants said during interviews, only to find that their classroom performance did not match what they described.

Recently, I found a site that allows current employees and new hires to take a strengths assessment, and it has been very helpful for our team. When the right people are in the right roles and working in their areas of strength, it can be a major win for your childcare business.

Be sure to check out, Free Strengths Test | Find Your Character Traits & Personality Types and start assessing strengths before you hire. It will cost your or the staff member nothing.

With Your Dream Team in mind!

Dr. Shiketa Morgan

The Child Care Business Owner Blog celebrates 16 years online!

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Is Your Hiring Process Working For You?

For many years I had a very strategic hiring system in place. That system included the following steps:

  1. I required the applicant to apply online
  2. An onsite interview was scheduled
  3. A classroom observation is required
  4. After the classroom observation, I would talk with the staff member that was in charge of observing the applicant
  5. We contacted the former employer to check the applicants track record
  6. Then I would gather all the information that we had and made a hiring decision

Once we hire the employee, we hold an onsite orientation which included completing all personnel forms, introduces the new employee to the team and giving the employee a tour of the facility.

This entire week I have been busy doing telephone and Zoom interviews. One thing that I discovered is this: I absolutely love doing Zoom interviews. In fact, I can see the applicant as if we were in the same room and I can also feel the applicant’s energy via zoom.

Furthermore, after doing multiple Zoom interviews this week, I was able to weed out some applicants and select the best candidates for the center.

Also, I recently decided to create a new virtual orientation video to provide the new employees with a on demand orientation that saves us time and energy. I must say that the potential applicants loved the convenience of watching a video from home.

So, with all the above in mind, I must say that my old system was no longer working and I have been inspired to go to a more virtual hiring process. After all, it can be exhausting doing all those face-to-face interviews, the applicant can save gas money and you can save lots of time with a virtual hiring process.

How is your hiring process? Do you prefer face to face interviews? Do you love to do zoom interviews? Do you have an orientation process? Have I inspired you to make any changes?

If you are a Center Owner, I want to inspire you to download a copy of my Directors handbook; a step by step guide to managing staff and you will also find my Art of Owning a Center Coaching series very inspiring.

I look forward to hearing from you!

Shiketa

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