The Top 10 Reasons You Need an Hourly Employee Selection System

Hiring & Retention of Employees   Written by Mel Kleiman - Word Count: 466
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10. To attract quality applicants

The best you can hire is only the best of those who apply. A good system helps you recruit so you attract the right people. A system gives you the tools you need to ensure both the quantity and quality of applicants.

9. To reduce your legal exposure

A good system efficiently meets the requirements of federal, state, and local governments without burdening you. A good system ensures you avoid discriminatory, invasion of privacy, and third party actions.

8. To reduce losses

Thirty percent of employer losses are a result of acts by employees. A good system can reliably predict the two attitudinal traits that limit losses – honesty and dependability.

7. To improve employee attendance

Employees with good attitudes show up for work – as scheduled and on time. A good employee selection system will identify applicants with the work ethics you need.

6. To ensure you hire motivated employees

Skills can be taught. Attitude accounts for 93% of success on the job. Motivated employees have good attitudes. Are you testing for attitudes?

5. To reduce turnover

When the right person is in the right job, the relationship lasts longer. It costs more than $1,000 every time you have to recruit, screen, interview, hire and train a new employee. Reducing turnover means reducing costs.

4. To save aggravation

A good employee selection system will save you the disappointment and aggravation of having to hire over-and-over-and over-again.

3. To save yourself a lot of time

Stop the revolving door of advertising/taking applications/screening/interviewing/hiring/ training. A good system will take less of your time and more of the applicant’s.

2. To save money

Every minute you spend advertising, taking applications, interviewing and training is money spent. Absenteeism and theft cost money. A good system dramatically reduces these costs.

1. To Keep All the Good People You Already Have On-Board & Happy

Have you ever hired an "eagle" only to have the person turn out to be a turkey? The number one reason good hourly workers leave is because they get tired of carrying the load for and dealing with the negativity of the bad ones. This best way to prevent this from happening is to implement a good hourly employee selection system


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Mel Kleiman is a nationally-known authority and consultant on employee recruiting, selection, and retention. This article is excerpted in part from Mel Kleiman’s latest book, "Hire Tough, Manage Easy." He also serves as president of Humetrics, Incorporated, which provides employee recruiting and selection systems, pre-employment testing, as well as educational presentations and in-depth training workshops. For more informationl,



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