Recruiting The Right People: Keeping True To Your Company’s Vision

Your company’s vision is important. Having a defined purpose and setting specific goals steers your business in the right direction. As a CEO or manager, you’re constantly thinking about the necessary steps you have to take to reach your goals. While it’s great that you keep your focus on the company’s vision, it’s also critical that all of your team members have a clear understanding of your company’s purpose.

For example, my vision for The Daniel Group is to help one million individuals find work before I retire. I established this goal when I heard a story by Minister Jesse Duplantis while attending a relative’s Sunday church service. Duplantis preached that he wanted to save a million souls before his work was done; motivating me to create an actual marker for the number of people I wanted to help. I figured that if our top priority was to simply help the communities within the markets we serve, everything else would fall into place.

We recently placed our 72,000th professional on the road to a million, which is a great milestone on this journey. However, I realized that this mission is only possible because every member of The Daniel Group understands the importance of this goal. It’s truly the foundation of our company and it wouldn’t work without the buy-in of the team.

This brings up a key issue for me: hiring the right people for your company. Sometimes we focus so much on candidates’ years of experience, job titles and previous companies that we overlook one of the most important factors in applicants – personality. The ideal applicant not only needs to have the talent to perform his or her function correctly, but also must possess the personality that fits in with our company culture. Your team members must have the ability to help the company sustain its vision and assist others in reaching our organizational goals.

As CEOs and Managers we need to help our employees maintain the company’s vision and keep it clearly in mind. The answers to these questions will tell you if you have taken the right steps to keep the company focused on your vision:

• What qualities must a person possess to help perpetuate my company’s mission?
• Do all of my current staff members have these qualities?
• Are all staff members aware of my company’s vision and goals?
• Do their daily contributions help the company’s vision?
• Do I consistently remind my team the importance of your vision and set clear goals to obtain them?

Keep true to your company’s vision by surrounding yourself with the people that see the bigger picture!