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Remember when you had that one employee who said to you, “Boss, we don’t need a fax machine anymore. Let’s switch to a fax to email service.” This is what great employees are for—finding great opportunities for your business growth and prosperity.

A recent article at Businessweek.com by Christine Comaford-Lynch offers some really sound advice about finding great employees. It’s easy, with a recession looming, to focus on money and business model issues, but don’t neglect the people. They’re likely to be most important element. And if you lose your top people during the downturn, you’ll never recover.

She suggests that an easy mistake is to mismatch people to the positions. Often, you’ve got a quality person that is under performing because they’re in the wrong position. Not because they aren’t quality. And you can’t afford to lose a quality employee. So always be evaluating whether you have everyone placed correctly.

Another thing she suggests is making sure you interview the people and not the resume. She does this by doing a really good screening phone conversation before the interview. She asks:

• The candidate’s career goals.
• What the person is really good at professionally.
• What he or she is not so good at, or not interested in doing.
• Who the candidate’s last five bosses were, what each boss would list as the candidate’s strengths and weaknesses.

These are just a few of many recommendations that she makes. I’d strongly advise that you read the whole article. It’s very valuable info.