Identifying Your Strengths and Weaknesses

Many hiring managers and recruiters spend their day looking at job candidate strengths and weaknesses, but seldom have time to look at their own. However, by identifying your strengths and weaknesses, you can become a better hiring manager or recruiter.

This is especially true in the construction industry. Construction hiring managers typically are working from behind and rushing to find the next candidate. This leaves them little time to work on becoming more effective by knowing their weaknesses. Take just a few minutes and look at this list of common hiring manager duties and identify which ones you are strong and which you are weak.

Most hiring managers genuinely want to see their hires succeed, which is why they are typically great at employee development, however, in the construction industry, this can be limited because of the constant hiring of employees. How are your employee development skills?
Hiring managers advocate for employees in a variety of ways. Do you advocate for your employees?
Compliance is a key component of HR duties, and one that is taken very seriously. How are your compliance skills?
One area that is typically weak is regarding financial knowledge. While many understand the basics of the benefits offered, few understand or can answer more in-depth questions asked by candidates. Is this an area you need to work on?
Most hiring managers do not like change, and in fact, will continue doing outdated processes just to keep change at bay. It is important with the changing technology that all hiring managers are adaptable. How are you at adapting to change?
Hiring managers typically do not have a customer focus. Simply because they do not have interactions with the customer base of the company, does not mean that you should not have a customer focus. It is important that you understand what customers for the company are looking for, it will help in hiring. Do you have customer focus?

Identifying your strengths and weaknesses is important for every hiring manager and recruiter. Only in knowing this information will you be able to improve your skill set. This in turn will help in finding great job candidates.