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Congratulations! Bringing on new employees is a momentous and somewhat intimidating process. Employees are your greatest asset. After all, they decide the direction of your company’s future and are the [building blocks of company culture](https://blog.iqtalentpartners.com/aligning-company-culture-candidate-recruiters). You should make all hiring decisions with care, but this is especially true for decisions when working in high-volume. Follow these high-growth hiring practices to find high-quality employees en masse. ## Don’t Lower Your Standards It’s all too tempting to lower your standards to fill a position quickly. When your current team is pulled in multiple directions and drowning in work, you might feel you have no choice but to fill the position as fast as possible to keep your team happy and meet customer expectations. As difficult as it might be, resist this temptation.   Filling a position with a candidate who isn’t a good fit and crossing your fingers that they’ll thrive in your organization is risky, wishful thinking. You may end up wasting thousands of dollars recruiting and onboarding an employee who’ll only stay a few months and add little value to your organization. The cost of a bad hire can reach up to [30% of an employee’s first-year salary](https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/statistics/employment). During this time of rapid growth, this is a cost you can’t afford.   **It pays to take your time when hiring — even during times of rapid growth. **   [**Still WFH? Use our Remote Recruiting & Interviewing Checklist to ensure your processes are in check.**](https://www.iqtalentpartners.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Your-Remote-Recruiting-And-Interviewing-Checklist-1.pdf)   ## Prioritize Attitude And Soft Skills Over Technical Skills Hire for attitude first, then focus on skills. Employees can always learn technical skills on the job, but teaching soft skills is often more difficult. Companies who are experiencing rapid growth require a specific type of attitude in their employees. An attitude of helpfulness, grit, and agility are important to capitalize on the growth. [Check out these high-volume #hiringtips from the experts at @IQTalent:Click to Tweet](https://ctt.ac/fX4fG)   Employees who’ll be successful and [add value to your fast-growing company](https://blog.iqtalentpartners.com/candidates-these-qualities-will-thrive-your-tight-knit-organization) should be prepared to lend a hand where it’s needed even if it’s not part of their job description. They should demonstrate top-notch critical thinking skills and take initiative to solve problems. These traits take more time to cultivate than most technical skills. And, this is time your growing organization doesn’t have when hiring en masse.   Soft skills are arguably the most difficult to assess in a candidate. Here are a few creative ways to screen for soft skills: - Ask current employees to list the soft skills that would lead to success at your company. Ask for detailed responses and their reasoning. - Ask candidates scenario-focused questions. - Have candidates rank themselves in a list of your company’s most valued soft skills. - Have references rank the candidate in a list of your company’s most valued soft skills. - Administer online tests that validate these soft skills. - Ask a candidate where they feel they could improve their soft skills. - Host a group interview with some type of gamified simulation.   **Remember: Attitude is everything when it’s all hands on deck during stages of rapid growth.** ## Acknowledge Your Biases — Then Check Them It’s important that company leaders and anyone involved in hiring be honest with themselves about their unconscious biases. While often not malicious, everyone has some degree of bias. The sooner you recognize it, the sooner you can take intentional actions to overcome it and make sure you’re being checked on it.    Unconscious biases within the hiring process can destroy your company’s chances of finding a valuable employee by turning off certain candidates, reducing your candidate pool, and limiting [your talent pipeline.](https://blog.iqtalentpartners.com/essential-steps-building-effective-talent-pipeline) Check your biases with these practical steps: - Do not include gender-specific language in job descriptions - Do not include unnecessary qualifications - Use blind screening software. This software allows recruiters to review applications without demographic data. This process will improve your chances of including the most relevant candidates in your interview pool.   **Don’t allow unconscious biases to prevent you from hiring a great employee. Start by acknowledging your biases. ** [Follow these #highgrowth #hiring practices from @IQTalent to find your next batch of top-notch #employees.Click to Tweet](https://ctt.ac/UQN9f) ## Focus on Your Pipeline Be proactive before the hiring boom starts. [Unemployment is still relatively high](https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/06/05/869821293/as-america-struggles-to-return-to-work-staggering-unemployment-numbers-loom), but those out of a job are sure to be looking soon. Any HR manager knows that the high-growth hiring process isn’t as simple as knowing how many people you need and finding that exact number.   For so many businesses, your hiring plan changed with the unexpected. Right now is the perfect time to focus on your candidate pipeline projection for the rest of the year, so you’re ready to welcome the number of candidates you actually need, along with the number of candidates you should expect to screen and interview to narrow down to the number you need.    [**Bonus: Use our Candidate Pipeline Projection Tool to put your hiring needs into perspective.**](https://www.iqtalentpartners.com/candidate-pipeline-calculator/) ## Get Comfortable With Giving Control To Others In a small company, the CEO is often involved in all hiring decisions, but as a company grows, it becomes more difficult. Learning to trust others with big decisions is a difficult but critical step in expansion.  Any high performing and successful CEO understands the importance of delegation.   Before you can get comfortable with giving control to others, you need to find a trusted partner through the anticipated post-COVID hiring surge. It’s a tumultuous time and HR teams of small growing companies have too much on their plates as it is. [Consider augmenting your recruitment team](https://www.iqtalentpartners.com/are-outsourced-recruiting-services-a-good-solution-for-my-company-quiz/) with an outsourced option. IQTalent Partners’ unique hourly pricing model is more affordable than you think. With our team, there are no minimums. This means you’ll never pay for the time you don’t use, unlike traditional RPOs whose services can be rigid, inflexible, and pricey. [See how DroneSeed](https://www.iqtalentpartners.com/case-study/droneseed/), a small startup, leveraged IQTalent Partners’ services to find 12 top-notch employees during a critical time of growth. *This article was originally published in 2019. It was updated June of 2020.* [![The recruiting you need. When you need it. 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