The Importance of Hiring to Company Culture

Posted on: April 24th, 2023 by roger

Hiring decisions are one of the most important tasks you must get right in order for your business to achieve long-term growth and success. Even with an extremely meticulous hiring process, these decisions are often difficult to nail since you only have a limited amount of time to meet with each candidate. Therefore, it’s critical that you prioritize the most important attributes towards company success during your hiring process.

While it’s critical that any candidate you hire possesses the skills and experience necessary to perform the job at a high level, these traits aren’t enough to ensure someone will thrive at your company. It’s also important that you make sure everyone you hire is a good fit with your company culture, as this will often be a greater predictor of future success in their role than the hard skills they possess.

What Is Company Culture?

Your company culture refers to the shared norms and expectations regarding how things are done at your business. Your culture is driven by your company’s purpose, core values and vision. It encompasses a wide range of items including:

The beliefs your team possesses
The ways in which your team communicates with each other and with your customers/clients
The dress code at your office
How accomplishments are recognized
How team members are able to share ideas and feedback with one another

Your company culture directly impacts the performance of your team. It plays a major role in whether your employees feel valued, are motivated to put forth their best work, and the level of trust they feel with their superiors. When your employees are a good fit for your company culture, they are more likely to stay longer and elevate the success of your business.

6 Reasons Why Hiring to Company Culture Will Benefit Your Business

There are many benefits you’ll experience when you prioritize hiring to company culture:

The Importance of Hiring to Company Culture

Improved employee engagement – Individuals who are a good fit for your company culture will typically be more engaged at work. This increased employee engagement keeps your team more focused, productive and aligned with your company goals.
Increased employee satisfaction – For many people, especially millennials and gen Z employees, salary is no longer the most important factor they consider when choosing a job. Most employees want to be happy in their work environment and feel like they are working for a company that aligns with their personal values and beliefs. When you hire to company culture, your employees will experience greater satisfaction from their job.
Higher levels of employee performance – When workers are engaged and happy, they are more likely to give their all at their job. They will be more willing to take on new challenges and responsibilities. They will work harder and be more invested in the success of your company. This results in higher levels of performance from your team.
Higher employee retention rates – Employees who are a good fit for your culture are happier, and happier employees tend to stay at their job longer. Employee turnover can be extremely costly to your business, so improving your retention rates will pay big dividends for your business over time.
More cohesive team – When your employees are all aligned with your culture, they will typically experience greater cohesiveness and have better collaboration. This will create a positive workplace dynamic that will set your business up to thrive.
Improved team morale – When you hire someone who is a poor fit for your culture, it can drag down the morale of the entire team, increasing the likelihood of mistakes and underperformance. It also creates a more stressful work environment that can potentially lead to higher employee turnover. The reverse is true when you hire a good fit for your culture. It will help keep morale high, improving the satisfaction and happiness of your other team members.

How to Hire for Cultural Fit

In order to ensure you hire candidates who are a good fit for your company culture, you need to embed this into your interview process. It’s a lot easier to assess whether a candidate has the experience and hard skills necessary to be successful in the role – these items should stand out on a resume, and the candidate should be able to easily speak about their strengths and skills during the interview.

But determining whether a candidate possesses the right personality, values and intangibles to fit in with your culture can be more challenging. It requires asking thoughtful interview questions about the candidate’s values, approaches and career aims. If your culture prioritizes teamwork and collaboration, you should also ask specific questions about the ways in which the candidate collaborates with others and how they view their role in relation to a larger team.

You should also pay attention to the questions the candidate asks you during the interview – are they inquiring about your company’s purpose, values, strategy and culture? If so, are the questions in line with the culture you’ve established, or does the candidate seem to be focused on values that are not in alignment with your culture?

Once you’ve hired a candidate, the onboarding process provides another opportunity to indoctrinate the person into your culture. Your onboarding process and initial training should continuously reiterate your company’s mission, values and culture. In addition, the team members responsible for training new employees should communicate tenets of your culture and model these behaviors as part of the training process. This will help new employees understand that your culture is more than lip service; your team actually lives these values each and every day.

PassioHR Can Help You Hire for Cultural Fit

Identifying which candidates are a good fit for your company culture is critical to getting the hiring process right, but it’s also not the only component to a successful hire. You must also make sure the candidate possesses the skills and experience necessary to thrive in the particular role you’re filling. Often, it can be beneficial to have the assistance of a third-party HR consultant who has the training and background to accurately assess the qualifications of candidates. At PassioHR, we have you covered.

We are a full-service PEO company with extensive experience assisting businesses with recruiting and hiring. We can help you manage the entire hiring process, including:

Creating your job position description
Conducting interviews
Identifying candidates who align with the values, personality types and skills necessary to thrive in your role
Handling salary negotiations

As part of our recruiting services, we’ll conduct a culture fit screening to make sure the candidate you hire possesses the personality and values to thrive in your team and help your business succeed. We have a proven track record of identifying the right candidates who align with the culture of the companies we work with. This background gives you the greatest likelihood of hiring the right candidates.

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Roger Hays currently serves as President and CEO of PassioHR, Inc., based in Englewood Colorado. PassioHR was founded in 2021 by Roger after having spent over twenty years working in various positions in the Professional Employer Organization (PEO) market.

His areas of expertise are Human Resources management; Benefits Administration; Government Affairs; and Business Management.

Mr. Hays currently serves as the Chair the Leadership Council for NAPEO in Colorado and serves on their PAC committee, Federal Government Affairs and State Government Affairs Committees as well. In addition to NAPEO Roger is a past Leadership Council Chairman for the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) in Colorado and serves on their PAC committee as well (NFIB is the voice of small business, advocating on behalf of America’s small and independent business owners, both in Washington, D.C., and in all 50 state capitals). He is a past Board President for the Colorado Civil Justice League (Colorado Civil Justice League is the only organization in Colorado focused exclusively on limiting unreasonable lawsuits and preserving common sense in the courtroom). Roger has been appointed by the Governor of Colorado, three times, to serve as a Board member on the Colorado Uninsured Employers Board. (The CUE board was established by the CO legislature to provide financial assistance to individuals injured while working for employers who did not carry workers’ compensation insurance in violation of Colorado Statute.)

Roger spends many hours each Legislative session working with state Legislators in Colorado on behalf of the PEO industry as well as small business in general testifying in front of committees or just interacting with individual legislators on issues important to those groups. He also works with the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, serving on a number of taskforces to help guide the department in dealing with Unemployment and Labor issues.

Mr. Hays Graduated from North Dakota State University with a BS Degree in Political Science and is an avid Bison supporter.

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