Talent Instinct with Chantal Penny: 3 Honing Recruitment Skills & Red Flags

Talent Instinct with Chantal Penny Introduction

The ‘Talent Instinct’ podcast episode 3 by Chantal Penny is an electrifying space where we dive into how construction business owners revamp their hunt for top-tier talent by ‘instinctivizing’ your efforts. In this episode we discuss some industry recruitment problems, honing your skills when hiring, how people work on auto-pilot listening, and adapting your communications to personality types and deep questioning for clarity and understanding. We also talk about red flags when hiring, industry trends when workers swap sectors (eg scaffolding in mining to civil) and how knowing the industry sectors well is the difference between a great or dud hire. And then, how do we get rid of dud people (the complaining, criticising and condemning personality traits) – second chances and solutions.

Let’s face it, making the right hire for your business has never been more paramount. The stakes of the wrong hire can disrupt performance, profit, culture and succession planning. Talent Instinct isn’t about playing safe, it’s about conquering with calculated instinct.

In this podcast, we cover: 00:13 Welcome and benefits 01:17 Episode 3 outline: Red Flags when Hiring, Industry Trends on workers swapping sectors (eg scaffolding in mining to civil) and traits identified in the sectors; and Getting Rid of the Dud People (the complaining, criticising and condemning personality traits) – second chances and solutions 01:57 Dealing with Jackyl and Hyde – interviews with no red flags 02:27 Things and people change 02:43 Are we missing red flags from the get go 03:00 Workers swapping mining back to local (scaffolder example) 03:47 Identifying issues upfront that will make the hire not a good fit for your client long term 05:11 Having deep and honest discussions upfront with candidates 05:48 Red flags and Not Using Our Instinct when we know it won’t work 06:23 Skills to identify candidate goals and their misconceptions on interpreting job criteria 07:09 Get to the bottom by asking more questions (clarifying their thinking and interpreting) 07:24 Great tip – ask them to repeat their understanding 07:47 Hone Your Skills - adapting communications to suit their personality types 08:18 Who is listening? Problems with timesheet examples 09:05 People are on auto-pilot (or telling you what you want to hear) 09:25 How are you thinking deeper to get the right answers 09:40 CVs can be crap and contain lies – no, that’s his cousin!!! 10:00 Going beyond the piece of paper and systems 10:13 Once they’re on site – their standard level 10:28 Entitlement, self deserving and bad attitudes in the industry 10:55 Great candidates coming through right now 11:02 Swapping teams out – changing teams 11:16 How do you get rid of people and replace them 11:26 Labour hire benefits – trailing people and getting rid of them my problem not yours 11:52 Saving face to the client – you look amazing (and I do the dirty work) 12:04 Instinctivizing our feelings for both great candidates and staff 12:24 Massive implications when wrong, eg. Safety issues, cancerous attitudes to teams 12:49 That one person that complains, criticises and complains 13:04 Is it worth keeping them 13:19 Long term effects – often doesn’t end pretty 13:51 Best behaviours in interviews -v- behaviour once they get job 14:08 Next episode: looking at red flags; tendencies to ignore your instinct and clues when you ‘just need staff’; personality indicators and common rules when hiring; benefits of using a third party (yes, me) to have an outsider view without the rose coloured glasses!

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Chantal Penny: P: 0422 536 382 [e-mail] www.siteforcerecruitment.com.au

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