Make Sure You Are Right Hiring HR Staff

I have thought about this topic for some time and the last seminar I went to really propelled me to write this post. I am sure each of you have made a bad or questionable HR hire. I know I have. So here are a couple of thoughts when you hire your next staff person and this goes for every level:

• make sure their cultural prospective is the same as your company's
• don't just replace the person who left, make sure the new hire has band width
• are they business savvy. not just knowledgeable of business
• if they just want to work with people that is a red flag
• make sure you spend enough time and if possible over hire 
• does their philosophy dovetail with yours, so you have to play psychologist/philosopher
• make sure they know enough about HR
• look at operations people/support within your organization, they do real well in HR

I am sure you all know this but it never hurts to bring it to top of mind so we don't get antsy in the hiring process.  

I would appreciate your comments and any additional areas you think I may have missed. Email me at wgstevens2@gmail.com.