Employee Retention - Benchmark Your Jobs, Not Your People

Many companies benchmark their top performers to determine how to hire more people like them. That's a good idea, but here's a better one.

Instead of benchmarking your people, benchmark your jobs. When you benchmark people there are variables that may skew the results and not give you an accurate picture of the ideal person for the position. When people assess other people, their personal biases enter in, in addition to the fact that people are complex and bring unknown variables that may or may not have anything to do with success in the job.

If you “let the job talk,” so to speak, you'll get an accurate and reliable picture of how the job should be done - the behaviors, motivations, and personal skills needed for the ideal job fit.

Here are the steps to follow in benchmarking a position

Employee Retention - Benchmark Your Jobs, Not Your People
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