Personnel Management Skills” that it pays to spend a great deal of time filling vacancies with excellent employees.

This may mean interviewing more applicants than we intended, spending time planning an interviewing process, conducting interviews that are in-depth enough to get as accurate a picture as possible about each applicant’s attitude and skills, and preparing an excellent orientation program for each new employee.

Time spent firing employees or encouraging major changes in their work habits or attitudes can be extremely painful often wasteful, and always time-consuming.

So, spend as much quality time as you need to help assure your new employees are excellent so you can minimize the time spent changing or firing them