Franziska: Hi, and welcome back to Basic Bananas TV. Today I’m here with Erik from Basic Bananas Canada, and we would like to share with you how you can use your values to find the right team members. How can you build a team based on your values? Maybe you can share a little bit about that.

Erik: There’s a lot of people that struggle with the whole hiring process, and even knowing where to start and what to do, and so we’re just going to touch on that one tip today. We’ve used values pretty successfully in our hiring process. What we do is we make sure we’ve identified our values, and you’ll see that in another video tip, and then we’ll take those values and we’ll actually evaluate the candidates that come in. What we like to do is do group interviews, so if we know that our team’s going to be working with an individual, we’ll have the whole team either sitting on a panel if it’s physical or on the Skype call if we’re doing an interview. Then we’ll ask the candidate some other questions, and then at the end of the interview we’ll actually ask the team, “Do you think that that candidate actually would fit into our core values?”

Franziska: You can develop skills, but having that attitude and that cultural fit, I guess, is a lot harder to develop for a person. It’s very important. I loved how you explained that. We’ll do another video separately, so keep an eye out for that on how to do group interviews because I know we love them here at Basic Bananas, obviously folks in Canada and even Australia. Some people sometimes wonder, how do you make this work? We just had something to say. Hi, that might be someone for the group interview. We’ll actually talk a lot more about group interviews in a future video, so stay tuned for that and thanks again for being here, Erik. We’ll see you on the next video.