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Everything You Need to Consider When Hiring Family Members
Before A Family Member Is Hired
- Make sure you ask the right questions, taking into account their passion and skill-sets and its alignment with your company's mission and values.
- See if they are a good 'personality fit' in your organization and its existing culture, having the required soft skills.
- Check if there is any conflict of interest or if the job vacancy ignores qualified candidates in favour of a family member.
- Make sure you hold the hired family member accountable and set the right standards and expectations.
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Hiring Family Members
The act of hiring close friends and family members and can be beneficial or detrimental to the business, depending on various factors.
Benefits: The employer knows them already and has a personal relationship with them, knows their skills, background and type of personality. This reduces the 'fit-in' time required for a new hire. Family members would, reciprocatively, work with dedication and ownership, having a genuine interest in the business, and maybe continue the legacy in the future.
Things Can Go Wrong
If family members are treated in a previleged manner, or with partiality, it could backfire and toxify the organizational culture. If a family member has to be disciplined or fired, as it can hurt the personal relationship, so one has to draw a line in the beginning before they are hired.
If a clear demarcation of the two roles of a family member and an employee is resisted, it's a sign they are not a good hire.
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Put extra effort into onboarding
Remote workers won’t have the opportunity to be involved in spontaneous conversations or team lunches, but there are other things you can do to help them settle:
- provide info with new job critical stuff: team member introductions (personal bios, photos, advice for new employees), HR training links, task checklists, long-term goals, and more.
- assign mentors to new hires, who schedule regular video check-ins, make themselves available on Slack and make new employees feel welcome.
Default working setups
Remote workers need a dedicated, quiet space to do their work, so it’s important to set some guidelines:
- encourage workers to join coworking spaces;
- encourage workers to set a dedicated insolated space at home for work, with suitable furniture;
- fast reliable internet access;
They can still work from a coffee shop every once in a while, but they need a good default setup.
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The Art Of Hiring
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Interview, Unplugged
One has to check if the candidate is genuinely interested in the job or is just checking all boxes of dressing right and talking right to land up with an offer letter.
How they treat and interact with others (like the guy handing them the coffee) also helps gauge their personality. One can take the candidate on a tour inside the company building, noticing how they ask questions, or how curious they are.
The Interview Meal
Sharing a meal provides the recruiter with a big opportunity to observe the candidate, like how they make eye contact, how polite they are, or the way they ask questions.
One can see what frustrates or flusters them and if they are patient or agitated. The whole personality of the candidate can be gauged by one meal with them.
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Donating supplies to a classroom or school, you impact some of the most vulnerable in your community – children. A few supplies can help them live up to their potential.
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Feed Someone
For many, hunger is still an issue they contend with, and you can help with that.
Contact local churches, homeless shelters or soup kitchens to find out what their food needs are and help. You can also reach out to other community groups in your area to see what’s there.
Become a Mentor
Mentoring allows you to hone your skills, develop talent in your trade and create a lasting legacy. It also lets you help people who may not get resources and support to develop themselves.
If you’d like to work with people in your industry, look for professional organizations or opportunities through your employer.
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