Everyone, and I mean everyone, thinks they are good at hiring. We are not. We fool ourselves.
It turns out that is really hard to size up how an individual will perform in your company culture. Your favorite recruiter can help with guidance, but it really comes down to the in-person interviews at your company.
Hiring
We fool ourselves. We overestimate our ability to assess fit in the interview. We think that we can choose the best individual and pass on the others. For some reason, we all think that we have cracked the code on interviewing because:
we may have a special pet question,
we have a questioning line to trap the candidate,
we depend on the “interview team” for a collective consensus review (bad idea),
we weigh the candidate's references (which are useless), or
we have alot of experience with interviewing.
Firing
Let’s finally admit that we are terrible at hiring and focus on the area that can make a bigger impact - FIRING.
Jack Welch just died. Whether you like "Neutron' Jack or not, his firing philosophy helped GE outperform the competition for decades. Jack's firing philosophy was to cut the bottom 10% of employees each year, every year, even in health...
