{"id":2262,"date":"2021-01-22T16:51:25","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T05:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greatpeopleinside.com\/australia\/?p=2262"},"modified":"2021-02-07T19:58:01","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T08:58:01","slug":"diversity-and-culture-fit-how-to-hire-for-your-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greatpeopleinside.com\/australia\/diversity-and-culture-fit-how-to-hire-for-your-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Diversity and culture fit – how to hire for your business"},"content":{"rendered":"

When recruiting a new team member, I have never met any business owner or manager who set out to deliberately hire a substandard performer. Then, why is it that studies tell us that we get it \u201cright\u201d (i.e., hire a top performer) only 25% of the time? The answer is that traditional recruitment processes, (resumes, interviews, and reference checks) are just not meeting the modern business needs.<\/p>\n

In Australia today, we are lucky that we have a highly educated and well-trained workforce, which logically means that most employees in Australia have the skills and competencies to perform their jobs well. But if this is the case, why is the hiring success rate so inconsistent?<\/p>\n

Most new employees fail \u2013 not because they are incompetent or don\u2019t have the required skills \u2013 but because they don\u2019t \u201cfit\u201d with the practice owner, the manager, or their colleagues or due to other factors.<\/p>\n

What is fit?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Culture fit (the alignment of values, beliefs, and behaviours between the employee and employer) has become another one of those also overused cliches in business-speak. While it is essential, the issue when hiring is that it means different things to different people. As a result, hiring for culture fit alone can be difficult to measure and is not a reliable predictor of high performance. When we speak of \u2018fit\u201d we are talking about much more than culture fit alone. Our definition of \u201cfit\u201d is as follows:<\/p>\n