Do you know one of the scariest things for a lot of companies? Since it’s close to Halloween, we will scare… I mean share the answer with you. It is hiring!

If your recruiting department isn’t dedicated it is very easy to make hiring mistakes that turn into nightmares. Here are some frightening things your company could experience if you do your own hiring.

1. Rush Much?

If you don’t have an HR department, hiring a new employee can add to your long list of job duties. Going through the hiring process and finding the right candidate is very time consuming and can take away from meeting deadlines and finishing important business. Here is where the problem lies. Do your rush through processes? Do you take your time and leave tasks unfinished? Finding the perfect employee cannot be rushed. In most cases, if time is one of the main factors in which applicant is hired, he or she typically won’t work out in the long run.

2. Do You Know What You Need?

Companies evolve, as do the positions in your company. What you were looking for in a new hire a year ago may be completely different than what is needed now.  Job descriptions sometimes are not updated with the position, so new hires tend to become overwhelmed and disgruntled because the expectations were not properly set from the beginning.

3. Are You A Top Notch Interviewer?

Do you ask all the right questions in interviews? Surprisingly, a lot of people don’t ask the best questions and or follow trough with the right interviewing steps. This could be detrimental to the outcome of who you end up employing! There is an art to interviewing to make sure that your candidate is EXACTLY what you want them to be. The truth is, Hire Up Staffing specializes in interviewing, pre screening, and finding you the perfect team member!

4. The Last Minute Hire

Are you waiting until the last minute to fill your open position? This is an option, but it WILL END IN DISASTER! If you wait till the last minute, you are setting yourself up for failure. The hiring process takes a lot longer when you don’t have a network set up. Without a network in place, your are essentially starting from scratch. Hire Up on the other hand has an extensive network set up! We post to job boards and social media sites reaching thousands of possible applicants daily.

5. Getting Emotional?

When you interview, do you look for people that you generally like or have things in common with? While you certainly want a new hire to work well with your company’s culture, you’ve also got to look beyond the personality and ensure that this person is also professionally qualified. Sometimes it is hard to get past the emotional aspect of interviewing a person. A good sense of humor will only go so far, and there’s work to be done! Hire Up Staffing looks at every applicant as a business move. They must poses the qualities needed by your company in addition to personality

6. The Thrifty Shopper

If you’re not working with a recruiter because you want to save a little money, consider the amount of time it takes you to sift through hundreds of applications, interview a handful, and choose the best candidate. If you look at the time cost, you’d save a ton by working with a recruiter who’s more skilled than you at quickly finding qualified applicants and helping you choose the best one.

7. Avoiding The Flake

Depending on how large your company is, you may not have access to all the background checks necessary to find a great employee. Have you ever hired someone and they just stop showing up to work? Or have your hired someone and they turn out to be someone different than in the 2 interviews? We have an extensive interview, testing, and background check process. We make sure you avoid the FLAKE and gain an amazing team member!

Happy Early Halloween from all of us at Hire Up Staffing!

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How many of you sit in an office for more than 6 hours a day? Do you ever find yourself feeling slightly unhappy or irritated at work due to certain aspects of the environment?

It is typical that your mood can be affected by not just sitting for so long, but also by certain aspects of your work environment. Ergonomics is all about increasing your productivity by making things more comfortable and efficient and there are many things we can do to help! Interestingly enough, we can tell the physical ergonomic aspects of your office by comparing it to how it affects your 5 senses: sight, touch, smell, hearing, and taste. The senses can be converted into the following environmental categories:

Lighting at work:

Your lighting is one of the most essential elements for good office ergonomics. Having the proper lighting level for the type of task being performed increases your comfort and accuracy and reduces eye strain. For some people the type of light affects them. Fluorescent lights can cause a lot of problems. If you can detect the flicker from the ballast in the light it is almost impossible for you to concentrate. And it causes eye strain as well. You can often combat this by wearing a hat that casts your eyes in shadow and block the flicker or by having an incandescent light bulb on as well.

Noise at work:

Noise is one of the most common distractions in an office environment and can prove to be disruptive to your office ergonomics. If it is loud enough and consistent enough it can also cause some health and welfare concerns for those working in the environment.

Outside noise sources like the airport and loading dock or train tracks may cause problems for your employees, but apart from additional sound insulation or moving there isn’t often much you can do about it. Internal office noise pollution is another mater. Office doors can be closed, but often aren’t. Cubicle chatter can be respectful and discreet, but often isn’t. Culture and corporate policy can have a positive affect on this however.

Layout of the office space may be another factor. Cubicles and offices near a conference room or break area are often very difficult to concentrate in. Being located to a main thoroughfare where everyone feels free to talk while walking is another. Primary exits and lobby areas are still another source of office noise pollution and should be considered carefully when making any office layout changes or staffing decisions. Some people can handle the noise better than others so keep that in mind.

Colors:

The colors that surround you can have a lot to do with how you feel when inside the office environment. Colors can have a strong psychological affect on you, especially when staring at the same color for 8 plus hours a day with no escape hatch around.

The psychology of colors has a lot to do with interpretation and understanding of how “expansive” or “intense” a color is. The more vibrant or expansive a color the more it can affect you, especially when in an enclosed space. Expansive colors indoors can give people severe anxiety. While other colors may be a factor in depression.

There are ways to use colors, even bright, expansive colors indoors to achieve many positive affects, but since that can be complicated most people go with toupe or beige since it is rather neutral in the psychological perspective and doesn’t cause any problems, even if it doesn’t cause any excitement either.

Textures:

Textures play a big part in the ergonomics of an office environment in three main ways: immediate tactile feedback, long term bio-mechanical support, and color and light disruption.

The immediate tactile feedback are things that you feel and come into normal contact with, like chairs, flooring, restroom fixtures, etc. If things feel nice you’ll feel nice. If they feel hard or rough then you’ll be uncomfortable. An uncomfortable workers are unproductive workers.

Long term bio-mechanical support plays an important role in fatigue, repetitive stress and musculo-skeletal disorders. A material texture is a component in the type of support it give the user, most commonly sitting or standing on it. There’s also a safety portion of a materials texture that should be considered, especially if it’ll come into contact with water.

The third element of texture is how it breaks up the light and color in the environment. Using texture to reduce glare and soften color transitions can help the ergonomics of an office environment in a lot of ways. Reflective surfaces, ones that cause glare, harsh transitions and small, busy patterns are all stressful and can induce anxiety in confined areas.

Layout:

The overall layout of the office environment needs to be considered for ergonomic issues as much as for aesthetic and human resource issues. Packing in as many people as possible may seem like a good idea, but a worker without the proper room to work is not a productive worker.

An 8′ x 8′ cubicle is the bare minimum for any work space and really only acceptable for work like call center employees that do not require much desk space. A 10′ x 10′ cubicle is marginal for most office workers with 12′ or more in one or both directions a much better solution.

The layout of a work space should really be left up to the individual working there. Some people like to have there backs to the door way while others will be constantly looking over there shoulders. Still some suffer from constant peripheral distraction if placed sideways to the opening. In any case setting the layout without input from the employee is a recipe for lower productivity. In all cases doorways and openings should never be directly in line with one another. Staggered opening give a since of privacy and reduces the peripheral distractions.

Main traffic areas like hallways and conference room areas should always be isolated from the main employee work space. These areas not only contribute to noise, but provide constant visual distractions as well.

Optimizing your desk and work space is extremely important as well! CLICK HERE to read more about how you can make your workspace more comfortable to ensure maximum productivity for your or your employee!

Making small changes around the office can drastically change the way people feel and increase productivity! Have a meeting about Ergonomics and see what you can improve for your and your team.