Why The Best Candidates Care About Company Culture.

Why the best candidates care about Company Culture???

According to Personnel Psychology, top performers are 400% more productive than average performers. If your company wants to recruit and hire top performers, understand what they want and need most from their employers. Fortunately, the answer isn’t just a generous paycheck.

Because top performers often know their worth and potential, they are more selective about where they work. When searching for jobs, the best candidates will prioritize finding a work environment that allows them to reach their true potential. If the company culture doesn’t enable them to excel and accomplish their long-term goals, they will look elsewhere.

By understanding what kind of company culture these top performers most prefer, you can learn which elements of your culture are most critical to emphasize and promote. Here are five qualities that top talent looks for in a company culture:

Autonomy

First of all, top talent doesn’t want or need micro-management in the workplace. As The Hartford explains, top performers are self-motivated, can make their own decisions, and initiate new assignments and challenges on their own. Because of this, they prefer an autonomous work culture where they have the freedom and flexibility to complete their work as they see fit. While average performers may abuse these privileges, top talent utilizes them strategically and efficiently to produce better work. When employers give top performers true ownership over their work, they allow them to thrive and improve their work.

Read more: http://www.recruiting.com/articles/why-the-best-candidates-care-about-company-culture/

Patrick De Wijngaert, Managing Partner Ethiconomy, the ethical staffing company.

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