There’s an old saying: Be careful what you wish for… you might just get it… and then some. Which brings us to the point of this blog.
Try as you might to be patient and selective, inevitably, time runs out and you find your back against the wall to fill the vacancy. The trap, for expediency, is to laser focus on skillset, ignoring mindset, just to put a competent butt in a seat. Trouble is, it’s then unrealistic to expect greatness from the resultant hire.
Hard as you try to avoid them, you know compromises made in recruiting will always come back to bite you. Something, or usually, more than one something, about the role doesn’t meet expectations. And sooner, rather than later, the new hire becomes disillusioned. Dissatisfied.
Ultimately, resulting in higher turnover, yes, but there’s an even greater, more pervasive, insidious, and yet, dangerously hidden cost— disengagement, and the lost productivity it causes. A factor not just for the disengaged. But for everyone around them.
Statistics from the Gallup Organization show that only around 20-30% of employees worldwide are truly engaged, with a significant portion being actively disengaged—this costs billions in lost productivity.
Studies have shown that productivity per employee averages below 60% of the workday. Even more shockingly, over half of employees actually qualify as being unproductive. All of which drives revenue down, cripples sales, increases turnover and makes customers less loyal. Certainly not a recipe for long-term business success.
The numbers are as frightening as they are true.
- Unproductivity way up, productivity way down. Recent studies show that most employees are unproductive for over 40% of their workday, with some studies showing most are actively productive less than 60% of the time
- Distractions are too convenient an excuse. It’s easy to blame frequent interruptions—for instance, it can take over 23 minutes to regain focus on a task after checking communication channels like Slack and email—but the disengaged feel little incentive to return quickly to the task at hand
- Global engagement is at an all-time low. According to Gallup, only 21% of employees globally were engaged at work in 2024, a two-percentage-point drop from 2023
- In the U.S., disengagement is at an all-time high. In the U.S., 17% of employees qualify as actively disengaged, a nice way of saying they are resentful and vocal about unmet needs, negatively impacting the entire work environment
- The impact of which is a financial drain on everyone. Firstup, citing a Gallup study, estimates that actively disengaged employees cost the U.S. economy anywhere between $483 to $605 billion each year in lost productivity
The good news is that you can buck these trends. And it’s easier than you would think.
It all comes back to how you go about filling roles. Most talent acquisition sourcing tools and job postings are focused on attracting for skillset, and infatuating candidates about working for the organization, selling the employer brand. Rather than connecting with passive candidates who are an Ideal Fit for the role, making them fall in love with the opportunity, and how their unique strengths will be valued each day on the job.
So then, the key is to focus less on what you want from candidates (attracting for skillset) and more about what they want to hear about all they can be in the role (attracting for mindset). PowerPosting enables you to do this, and more, by:
- Emphasizing mindset attributes like adaptability, curiosity, and resilience—PowerPosts custom content enables you to highlight the evolving nature of the role and the company’s value of growth and development
- Integrating PowerPosts psychometric assessment questions into the interview process to evaluate a candidate’s mindset, motivations, and competencies
- Utilizing PowerPosts strategy and content as a basis for behavioral and situational interview questions that uncover a candidate’s approach to challenges and learning
PowerPosting will enable you to reap all the benefits of a more engaged, productive workforce. With every new hire.
- Higher Revenue: Highly engaged employees contribute to 23% higher profitability for organizations, according to Gallup
- Increased Sales: Sales productivity is 18% higher among highly engaged employees.
- Reduced Turnover: Organizations with high employee engagement experience 51% lower turnover rates
- Improved Customer Loyalty: Customer loyalty and engagement are 10% higher in organizations with a highly engaged workforce
Turns out you’re more powerful than you know.
Able to attract more of the right people…
With the most diverse mix of Ideal Fit candidates to choose from…
Based upon more direct hiring manager involvement…
In a position to get more from every team in the organization…
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