As staff recruiting in ministry world continues to evolve and become more competitive and sophisticated in recent years, churches and recruiting firms have developed a keen sense of hiring red flags during the recruiting process that relate to whether a candidate is a good fit for your church or not. Those hiring red red flags may be a bit different from church to church, but there are many red flags that are fairly consistent across the board.
Now a red flag doesn’t necessarily mean that a church should stop recruiting a candidate, even though that’s very possible, but it is a cause for concern and gives reason to hit the breaks on the speed of the process and dig deeper with the candidate.
So after being on both sides of recruiting, both being recruited and recruiting a number of hires, here are some of the biggest church staff recruiting red flags.
8 Hiring Red Flags for New Church Staff
1. Candidates That Are Overly Concerned With the Opportunity to Teach
If teaching is really important to the candidate and you’re not hiring them to a teaching role then don’t hire them. Let them go plant or pastor their own church.
2. Indecisive Candidates
If they need to go date other churches then let them. Just don’t marry them.
3. Candidates Speak Negatively of Their Current Church
If they talk badly about their current church, they may have a difficult time taking personal ownership and as a result have a low E.Q. And by the way, if they talk badly about others, they’ll probably talk badly about you.
