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Today's cast, Hiring is not an HR process, chapter 2, part 2.

The questions this cast answers are, how can I improve my ability to hire?

Do I have to follow my company's standards? And how can I hire someone who doesn't meet our requirements?

Franchise to these questions and more. Keep listening.

Hey folks, it's the new year. And because of that,

you may be thinking you want to start the year-off strong with your team and your organization.

Consider bringing Manager Tools on-site to work with the individuals in your company for one of our training events.

Now, it's that time of year. We know that. That is, people are moving around. More Hiring is being done.

So, if you're looking to bring us on-site for the Effective Manager communicator or Effective Hiring Manager conferences,

we'd love to come work with your team. Send us an email at magiatmanager-tools.com

and she'll talk to you about our available dates.

You're thinking external. You got to also think internal, which means learning the higher room requirements.

Absolutely. When they give you that flow chart, go down there. Ask them.

If you're going to strengthen your hiring process and in the process, perhaps lightly and without

malice, step on some toes in HR. It's a very smart tactic to know what HR says the process is.

It could be, they've given you a flow chart. That's the documentation of the process.

It could be that they do have a documented process, but it's not really published. It could be

published and not readily available. It could be buried somewhere weird in the corporate internet.

It could all be laid out on the internal website, which is wonderful for what we're about to

explain that we recommend you do, and they may not have any documentation at all,

which means, by the way, in process, speak no documentation and therefore very little

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