I have heard from a lot of sources that the most valuable asset of any company is people. Well, from my experience people can give you more problems than anything else.

If you think about the problems you are having you will realize they are not with the phone or walls of your office, they are not with your computer. No, they are created by people. There are thousands of problems you have when it comes to dealing with people.

But that’s not the only problem with people, there is another far more serious one, that the worst result you can have from hiring the wrong person is not zero. If it were only zero it would not really be that bad, all the person would get would be a salary. But, it is not zero – it is minus to unlimited – there is no limit to how expensive a hiring could be, the real wrong guy might take years for you to detect or make a wrong investment or wrong decision and cost you millions. But look at this guy for a minute, how does he look to you? He plays the game perfectly and looks like he is producing while in fact he is destroying. There are people who have had to leave their company, sell it or have gone bankrupt simply because they hired one wrong person.

So, it is time that you start to understand what to do when you hire people. If you really get it, it is like giving yourself an insurance policy.

Performia's purpose with this site

This site has been put together for you by Performia so that you can study and learn about Recruitment, Hiring and Human Resources.

The field of Human Resources has been made complex and muddied up with different ideas and opinions. There is a lot of HR data out there that simply doesn’t work. Our purpose with this site is to get you understanding how to hire, how to recruit, how to involve yourself in the field of Human Resources with a clear understanding of what you are trying to do and how to achieve it.

We have geared this site to hiring and recruitment, but you will also see how easily this data can be applied to internal testing of personnel.

Performia is an international hiring and HR company founded in the late 1990’s by CEO Mårten Runow. Performia develops and delivers HR solutions on the internet. The Performia internet system is a fantastically powerful tool used around the globe to solve all kinds of Human Resource problems and situations.

This site has been divided into different categories so that you can easily understand Human Resources and Hiring.

The Job Advertisement

The first action you are going to need to take when hiring someone is placing a job advertisement. So, what are the pitfalls where you can go wrong? And how can you do it right? Performia has covered the answers to these lessons in Recruitment Ads.

Job Applications

The next step is receiving the Job Applications – you can get tens of these, hundreds or even thousands. How do you sort through them? How do you deal with them? The Performia internet system allows you to take the correct action and fast when doing this. But if you don’t have the Performia system then there are still other actions you can take to improve your handling of Job Applications. The answers are covered in the Job Applications section.

Performia Information Site

With the Performia system you can take the applicants and narrow them down with a laser precise internet based testing system. There are personality tests, intelligence tests, aptitude tests, as well as numerous other tests specifically designed to locate the right person for the job. Over two decades of experience in the field of hiring, recruitment and human resources has gone into designing this system. The Performia system is a diamond from which you can pluck the gems you really want to hire. You can find out more information about it at the Performia Information Site.

The Job Interview

After narrowing down the applicants you are into the realm of the actual Job Interview. And it is the next section in this site. How to conduct it, the different types of people who apply, how to tell who you can trust and who you shouldn’t trust, how to determine if the person is actually a producer or not. After studying this section you will know exactly how to deal with the Job Interview.

Key Job Interview Questions - How to Hire the Person you really want

The final section goes right along with the Job Interview, it actually lays out the Key Questions you are going to be interested in asking when you hire someone. There are many, many tools on the market today to make it easy for a potential recruit to try to fool you into believing he is good. Companies exist who have the sole task of putting together beautiful resumes, authors write books about How to Get the Job You Want – which inform the Job Applicant of how to get past the stringent standards some companies have for hiring. It is because people can get employed who cause untold damage to companies that such strict guidelines exist. So, how do you actually locate the people who can produce from the woodpile? That answer is contained in this final chapter.

Performia Human Resource Services

It would be a mistake of mine if I told you that all Performia has to offer is within these pages. Because these pages only contain an introduction to Performia and it’s services. The actual Performia services and training that we deliver covers so much more than just these basics. What you will find in these pages is like Gold Dust, very rare and highly valuable, but what Performia actually has to offer is a more like a solid Gold Bar. You can get more information on Performia and you can also send us an email.

Good Luck.

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