Hiring To Fit Your Corporate Culture: HR Proceedures

The culture of a company has been recognized as an integral part of day to day business. This makes hiring to fit your corporate culture extremely important to ensure that you hire the right candidate who will work well in the environment and reduce the rate of staff turnover. 

 

Why Corporate Culture is Important

 

Corporate culture has always been in every company, but it has now become more prominent. Many employers now seek to actively mould their culture rather than allow it to progressively develop without structure. A well-defined corporate culture can actively promote great business performance and can result in a much higher rate of staff retention. The most effective examples of corporate culture have been guided and set carefully to be based on shared goals and beliefs between employees and management. It can inadvertently define the perceptions on actions and consequences, for example promoting feedback and responsiveness to ideas. If members of staff feel they may be punished or have ideas received negatively, then they may not come forward even when asked.

 

The corporate culture is related to almost every aspect of the business including processes, values, environment, goals and structure of the management team. This makes it essential that the new recruit will complement the existing culture, adapting easily to the etiquette involved in work flow and be willing and able to conform to the routines or rituals which make up the culture.

 

The corporate culture encompasses the package of work routines, environment, values, branding, structure of management and the objectives and goals of the company. This makes it imperative that recruitment takes into account how the applicant will complement the corporate culture, how they will adopt the work flow etiquette and conform to the rituals and routines which contribute to the overall culture. This means that hiring to fit your corporate culture is a must.

 

HR Procedures which Aid Hiring to Fit Your Corporate Culture

 

In the past the only way to fully assess whether a candidate would be a good fit into the corporate culture was a face to face interview. Obviously this is extremely slow and an inefficient use of time. However, there are a number of tools now readily available which can make this process quicker and more efficient.

 

Although it is impractical to attempt to interview all candidates, many applications can be pre-screened. This allows obviously unqualified or unsuitable candidates to be eliminated. This ensures that any applicants who proceed further into the recruiting process have the basic skills or qualifications needed to fulfil the role.

 

Another suitable procedure to adopt is video applications. Standard written applications can tend to be cold and can fail to showcase the personality of the applicant. Conducting video applications which can be easily viewed again and by multiple recruiters can allow the recruitment panel to view the genuine knowledge of the candidate and by the use of tailored and specific questions, judge whether their personality would be a good fit within the corporate culture. For example if casual Fridays are an integral part of your company culture, the recruiter can judge the candidates suitability based on their reactions on the video application. A candidate who shows enthusiasm for this is far more likely to be a better fit in the culture.

 

Failing to adapt HR procedures to allow hiring to fit your corporate culture can have a huge impact on your business. Where an unsuitable recruit can impede productivity and lower staff morale, the recruit best suited to the corporate culture will not only increase productivity but will actively increase staff morale and provide a boost to the whole company.

 

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Hiring To Fit Your Corporate Culture: HR Proceedures