Interview Right to Hire Right

Do you feel that you are “unlucky” when making hiring decisions?

Have you ever hired someone and then within a few days realized that this isn’t the right fit?

Would you like to avoid common hiring mistakes?

Would you like some tips on how to improve your hiring process?

Hiring the right person for the job is one of the biggest tasks for a manager. It takes time and preparation to conduct effective interviews.

In this Episode #108 of the Practice Management Nuggets Podcast For Your Healthcare Practice, guest expert Nelson Scott of SEA Consulting provides interview tips that you can use to gather high-quality information on which to base your hiring decisions using Behaviour Description Interviewing (BDI).

“If you ask good questions, you're going to get good answers. You're going to get the kind of information you need to make a prediction as to whether this person is the right person to hire.” Nelson Scott

Why Is Hiring the Right People Important?

Nelson Scott believes that people are what makes the organization successful. The right people make it more successful. You want to bring in people that fit the culture of the organization and are in line with the values and purpose and mission of your organization. You want to have people who will come into your organization and they'll feel they belong there.

Interview Right to Hire Right Nelson Scott #1 Tip

Nelson’s #1 Tip

Nelson’s #1 Tip for clinic managers, healthcare providers of small healthcare practices about hiring employees?

First, identify the top performers in your practice. Then look for the candidates that are most like your top performers. Remember, you are hiring not just for the immediate vacancy, but potentially for the next 10 years. Take the time necessary to find the right employee for your practice.

Listen To The Podcast

In the podcast, Nelson explains how to conduct interviews that will yield high quality information on which to base hiring decisions.

Behaviour Description Interviewing (BDI)
How to:
- Write interview questions
- Get high quality information during interviews
- Conduct reference checks

We also discuss how to alter common interview questions so that you will get better quality replies.

This will help you to make better hiring decisions.

Listen here: Practice Management Nuggets Podcast

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Interview Right to Hire Right Nelson Scott Contact

Featured Guest: Nelson Scott, SEA Consulting

Nelson is an expert in hiring employees and a coach for managers who need to better be prepared to manage employees.

Nelson Scott has trained thousands of managers and supervisors from a variety of public, private and not-for-profit sector organizations on how to use interviews to gather high-quality information on which to base their hiring decisions. He also works with clients to develop interview questions, to prepare them to conduct interviews, and to manage the selection process on their behalf.

Nelson Scott has conducted thousands of interviews and been involved in hiring hundreds from frontline staff to CEOs. And along the way, he had made more hiring mistakes that he cares to admit. For more than two decades he had focused his writing and speaking about how to hire, engage and retain the right people. He is the author of three books, including a soon-to-be-published book on staff recognition.

Would you like more interview and staff recognition tips from Nelson?

Check out Nelson’s Briefly Noted Newsletter Here: GREAT Staff Recognition – SEA Consulting

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