With the high level of competitiveness in the corporate market, even before hiring a professional to join their team, companies must follow certain criteria to ensure that the hiring process does not become a series of mistakes that could lead to losses with certain employee profiles.
It is crucial to understand that professionals with a profile unsuitable for the company's environment and needs, instead of contributing, end up hindering, decreasing productivity, and harming the team. Based on this, we have listed below some of the professional profiles that exist in the market and how managers can act according to each profile.
Competent, but complacent
Generally, this type of professional has been working for several years, is competent in their tasks, but rarely suggests new ideas. Furthermore, this type tends to be resistant to change and doesn't seek to update their skills. For the leader, this professional isn't necessarily a problem, depending on their role within the company. It's possible to reverse this situation by offering benefits such as scholarships or courses, which can also encourage the employee to step outside their comfort zone and seek alternatives to improve their professional development and performance.
Unhappy professional
This is the type of employee who causes the most problems for the organization, as a lack of motivation harms the employee's performance and can even affect colleagues. Reprimands and threats are not the best approach; on the contrary, they can worsen the dissatisfaction. The advice is to have a conversation with this employee and frankly ask why they are unhappy and how the company could help them resolve this problem, if possible.
Proactive and enthusiastic
These characteristics are well-regarded, but exaggeration on the part of the professional can make them inconvenient. There are also situations where the person always suggests new ideas, but they are almost never relevant. Given this, the leader should make the employee understand that, before suggesting something, it is necessary to assess whether there is a possibility of the idea becoming concrete and being developed.
Proactive, motivated, with common sense
In this case, the manager's challenge is to retain the professional so that they remain with the company, remembering that people with this profile are sought after by competing companies. The leader should retain this person through promotions, salary increases, and bonuses, as well as assigning responsibilities and rewarding them for results. It is essential that the employee feels valued by the company so that they can perform their activities to their full potential.
Ambitious
An employee who wants to grow within the company and strives to improve their performance should be seen as beneficial to the company. However, those who use unethical methods to climb to higher positions in the hierarchy are dangerous and should be reprimanded, because in important positions, for example, they can cause conflicts with other good employees who are below them in the hierarchy, causing damage to the company while seeking individual gain.
How do you know what profile each professional has?
To understand a person's profile before hiring them, there are several methods, one of which can be done during the interview itself, using specific questions related to the job, or even through psychological assessments during training, for example.
Psychological assessment is a procedure that aims to evaluate, analyze, understand, and clarify the dynamics of the psychological processes representative of an individual. The main objective is to understand each person's potential and individual competencies. For this, psychological testing remains the best available tool because, in addition to providing reliable data—since its psychometric characteristics are scientifically proven—it allows the psychologist to have a complete view of the person and to define their most advantageous competencies or characteristics, as well as those in which they need to invest more.
In a selection process, such information allows the psychologist to more confidently recommend individuals for specific positions and guide leaders on how to manage their employees and what to effectively invest in to achieve greater development and better results. Similarly, in training and development, a psychological assessment provides sufficient support for a program to be tailored considering individual and group specificities, potentially even leading to a redirection of the strategies adopted.
By conducting this type of test and evaluation, it's possible to determine which professional best suits your company. In times of crisis, this can be the main goal for companies, seeking to find professionals who are truly engaged with their work, can deliver results in the short term, and are a differentiating factor within the corporate environment.
However, finding a professional with these qualifications is often difficult.
An employee who is not motivated ends up losing the desire to contribute to the company. When this happens, a large part of their work time ends up being wasted.
For example, there are professionals who spend all day on the internet doing personal activities , accessing social networks and messaging apps, without performing any work-related tasks.
Since managers are not always able to monitor the team's activities, in many cases employees end up using the internet for personal use.
Situations like this become a problem both for the employee, who may miss opportunities by failing to behave like a committed professional who generates results, and for the employer, who ends up investing time and money in employees who are not adding value to the company.
So, how should we proceed regarding the misuse of the internet and smartphones at work?
Although the company has the right to be aware of activities in the workplace, there are delicate issues involved in this matter. Monitoring can infringe on the constitutional right to privacy and confidentiality of correspondence. It is necessary to inform employees about the existence of monitoring tools, also establishing clear limits of use, based on rights and duties. Therefore, the rules should always be visible so that employees know they are being monitored in their internet use and in their environment, if there are video cameras, for example.
Therefore, when misuse of the internet or equipment within the company is discovered, it is up to the manager to use good judgment to act in a way that prevents the misconduct from recurring. To this end, punishment alone is not enough; it is recommended, as a first step, to have objective and timely contact with the employee to discuss the incident and any necessary warnings.
Management and control of the company's internet access
One solution, if your company is experiencing a situation like those mentioned above, is to implement a system for managing and controlling internet access within the company. This allows you to monitor and supervise your team more precisely, identifying those who are truly focused on contributing to the company and differentiating them from those who are simply occupying space and consuming resources in the corporate environment.
The company should also provide its employees with a document outlining the company's internet usage policy , to inform and make employees aware of the internet usage policy in the workplace, ensuring the proper use of the internet and technology resources by employees.
The inappropriate use of the internet can have a significant impact on businesses and their reputation, directly affecting customers and financial results, and may even lead to legal problems for corporations.
Similarly, concerns about messaging, social media, games, pornography, and many other things that overload the network and waste time during work are legitimate.
If your company is concerned about wasted team time and inefficient internet use by employees, Lumiun Box can help you solve this problem. In addition to protecting your network against threats and harmful websites, it allows you to control what each employee accesses online and generate detailed reports on network usage, all in a simple, practical, and accessible way. Learn more about the tool by requesting a system demonstration or contacting one of our consultants .
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