21st-century Employee Selection shouldn’t be a toss of the coin!

Shelley Holmes
18 min readJul 4, 2021

Let’s show you how to improve the probability that you’ll hire the right person for the role… rather than just hope “They’ll work out”

A High-Performance Employee Selection process transforms your business results!

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Okay, before we get into talking about employee selection, I’ve got a question for you.

employment is changing

What do the Dubai police force and bricklayers have in common?

What they have in common are robots. Robots are coming to replace both their jobs.

By 2030, 30% of the police force in Dubai will be robots. These robots, through facial recognition, can identify suspects and chase them down until a real person turns up. They can speak six languages so they can direct tourists around Dubai. You can pay your speeding fines all via robot.

And in Australia, a company called FastBrics, have robots that can lay 1000 bricks per hour. The average bricky lies about 300 to 600 a day.

Our world is rapidly changing. Times are changing. The ways people think about work and do work are completely different, not just now but in the coming years.

Times are changing and we have to keep up!


And you have to keep up in every aspect of your business. Which includes your selection system. If you aren’t using 21st-century selection techniques, your business is going to suffer.

we need to shift from

Hire for Skill, Fire for Attitude

to

Hire for Attitude, Train for Skill

There’s an adage in HR: Hire for Skill, Fire for Attitude. Well, you need to tip that saying on its head. Instead, you need to Hire for Attitude, Train for Skill.

I’m sure you’ve spent hours agonizing about writing people’s job descriptions. Then rifling through hundreds of random resumes. You’ve spent hours interviewing, to only still have that seed of doubt, that question in your mind, is this the right…

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Shelley Holmes

Everyone deserves to work with a leader who transforms: people, planet, profit