To their own detriment, 92% of employers focus on experience and ability when hiring employees. But experience and ability are all but irrelevant in hiring the best employees. In his latest book, The Five A’s of Great Employees, author, speaker, and workplace-cultural advisor Eric Swenson identifies the five most important traits of a truly great employee.
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Swenson bushwhacks the old strategies for hiring great employees: “Experience and technical competency no longer matter,” he says. “What employees are capable of doing tomorrow is far more critical than what they have done in the past.”
Thanks to massive leaps in technology, says Swenson, every industry experiences a makeover every few years, and this will continue until the end of time.
Swenson provides employers with five qualities that tomorrow’s great employee will have.