Mike Schmidtmann, a business consultant for 4-Profit, says a great hiring process includes finding great candidates, making your company attractive and screening out bad guys. In a presentation before Continuum’s Navigate conference in Boston Monday, Schmidtmann said many IT companies make mistakes when hiring talent, but there are simple steps to follow to break all bad habits. He encouraged attendees to find ways to make their company attractive to prospective employees, to separate the “pretenders from contenders” in the interviewing process and to make sure once you have a solid salesman on-board, you keep that person happy and productive. Here are five ways you may be messing up in the hiring process, according to Schmidtmann’s guidelines.