You’re going to hire the same IT position over and over

Why does that sound not so bad and really bad at the same time?  If you were growing and adding IT positions that’d be a good thing.  But that’s not what’s happening.

Companies hiring for a sole IT position (Call it what you will, but it’s typically IT Administrator, IT Specialist, IT Systems/Network Administrator, IT Manager, etc) are going to have the same problems over and over again. This is a major problem on multiple fronts and you need to have a solution for this, or the pain of bad IT is going to make you suffer.

Let’s look at the problems from hiring the same sole IT position over and over

• You have to interview for a technical position (and no one is technical – hint hint…. you don’t know what to ask, and how to interpret)
• There’s no room for advancement for IT.  Why would they stay?
• You most likely have outdated technology (there’s nothing new to learn, just old technology to babysit)
• You want to hire ONE person who’s great at 15 skill-sets
• Each new hire does their own things instead of working off your company’s IT standards (because you don’t have any)
• Each new hire is setup to fail (because you don’t have any documentation of your IT environment)
• Who wants to clean-up the previous hire’s IT dumpster fire?

Truly ask yourself these questions

• Is your IT suffering (old, out-dated, continuous problems and outages)
• Why do you think that is? Be honest with yourself.  The quality of IT people you’ve hired?  No real IT budget?  No investment in IT?
• Do you actually need an IT person, or do you just need better IT that works?