Hiring SMARTT: Six Strategies for Hiring for Maximum Employee Engagement
Workplace Application: The Hiring SMARTT process provides tangible tools to create a good fit between a candidate and your organization's culture and team and the job.
Engaged employees feel like they fit in. If you want to increase employee engagement, you need to start by hiring the right people for your organization or team. The Hiring SMARTT method shows six steps to get the right person in the right job. Hess shares key deliverables for creating an easy-to-use, repeatable system for hiring. Use it in HR and share it with hiring managers to get optimal recruitment results. With a tactical focus on the hiring process, from the job description to behavior-based questioning to effective onboarding, the Hiring SMARTT method gets candidates closer than ever to the perfect match.
Vicki Hess
Vicki Hess is an expert in employee engagement, team dynamics, and workforce and leadership development. A registered nurse with more than 30 years of hands-on professional experience include healthcare, consulting & sales. Hess is a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP), the speaking profession’s international standard for platform skill.
In 2011 & 2012, Speaking.com named Hess a ”Top 5 Healthcare Speaker”. Hess holds a Master’s Degree in Human Resource Development from Towson University and was an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University Graduate School of Business for five years. Hess is the author of SHIFT to Professional Paradise: 5 Steps to Less Stress, More Energy & Remarkable Results at Work and the The Nurse Manager’s Guide to Hiring, Firing & Inspiring . She is also a regular contributor to the Baltimore Business Journal and NurseTogether.com