Strengths Based Recruitment

One of the four roles of a manager is the recruitment/talent selection; other three being employee engagement, performance management and development. All the four are interdependent but it all begins with the recruitment of the right talent.

Mere university qualifications and experiences are not adequate to have dedicated employee engagement resulting in near perfect performance almost every time. It has been found out by the Gallup survey that only 13% of the work force in the world are fully engaged and rest 87% are not.

According to Gallup, the definition of Strengths is the “ability to consistently provide near – perfect performance; ie the ability to consistently produce a positive outcome through near perfect performance in a specific task. To finish with strengths, start with talents”.

Recruitment of right talent is the first step to get near perfect performance consistently. This will happen only if the employees are working from the strengths zones.

How to go about it?

·        Recruit and select candidates with talents that match those of the best performers in each role.

·        Find employees with the highest potential for excellence.

·        Assess and select job candidates for “Talents” and right “domains” for the workgroup and culture.