Conscious hiring is the linchpin of workplace optimization, engagement and employee retention. It also provides an overall boost to your customer service efforts. Hiring consciously means having awareness around the role, its purpose and the outcomes required to successfully validate the role’s existence and cost in the organization as well as being mindful about who the right type of person is for the role. With a conscious hiring mindset, all of these parameters are defined at the beginning of the search. It means making keen hiring decisions that are geared toward the organization’s strategic needs over and above the keywords listed on the resume and the frenzy to fill the job fast. When people are hired and onboarded into an organization that they are philosophically aligned with and they are hired into roles that are a natural self-expression of their strengths and talents, the benefits are enormous: Simply said, they perform—and they perform well. You will: