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May 1, 2008

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Your Employees are the Face of Your Business – Hire the Best

In the service industry, your employees are the face of your business. Good employees create positive customer experiences, generate repeat business, sell more, and influence positive behaviors in coworkers. Bad employees disrupt the work environment and cost the company money through turnover, inventory shrinkage, lost productivity and lost customers.

A study published in the Harvard Business Review* concluded that job match is the single most important component of job success. Our research has found this to be true of not only skilled professional and managerial roles, but of hourly level roles as well. From a selection perspective, if we can put the right people in the right role, we will maximize success. But how can we best evaluate this person-job fit?

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*Source: Herbert M. Greenberg and Jeanne Greenberg, "Job Matching for Better Sales Performance," Harvard Business Review, Vol. 58, No. 5.)  

 

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