Every Freaking Time
Every Freaking Time
How internal recruiters, managers and HR people hire the wrong candidates. Every freaking time.
When hirers have no clear idea of what a company needs, candidates get hired on random criteria.
When hirers have no idea what makes e.g. software development work (or not), candidates get hired on a range of criteria other than “will this person be effective?”.
When hirers buy into the myth that individual ability is the key criterion, they’ll skip over those candidates with the ability to work within – and change – the existing system (the way the work works).
No surprise, then, that most times, hires hire the wrong candidates.
Alternatively…
Understand what the company needs from the new hire, now and more significantly six months to two years down the line. And yes, this implies some hard system 2 thinking.
Understand what makes software development work, and select on that basis. BTW As the whole software industry is unable to answer this question, good luck with this!
Understand Deming’s 95:5, and select system-savvy candidates. You do know about systems thinking, don‘t you?
– Bob
Further Reading
Antimatter Recruiting ~ Think Different blog post
Think Different
i have seen this at every company i’ve worked for. usually it’s because someone is brought in at a high level from the outside because leadership thinks they will have some secret insight that people in the company have never thought of. usually that is not true and because these newbies don’t understand the company or industry they are in, they hire people who don’t get it either. this has resulted in tremendous wastes of time, money, productivity and morale.
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