The Key to Hiring the Best Candidate Is Deciding What’s Most Important

Close your eyes and grit your teeth. Was this hire on target? Did you get a good one? Often, the answer is “no” and the costs accumulate via damaged culture and disruption.

Why are hiring decisions so difficult? A bad hire is evident to everyone, carries a stench and fuels the rumor mill. Confidence in management ebbs lower. A manager thought they had weighed, measured and judged the candidate’s fit — but failure happened anyway. It’s happened to all of us. Hiring decisions are some of the largest decisions we make as managers and entrepreneurs. Have we figured out why we fail so often?

Lately, my peers and I blame the irregularity of the millennial generation, their work ethic, their overreaching expectations. We blame aging baby boomers who often overestimate the value of their experience. We blame the labor pool for not producing an obvious series of good candidates. We blame the good economy for overpaying the qualified candidates. All the while, the hiring carrousel spins around and we scratch our heads and tolerate mediocre hires and fret about firing someone we recently hired. It’s time for a decision makeover for hiring purposes. Read more…

The Key to Hiring the Best Candidate Is Deciding What’s Most Important