{"id":308,"date":"2008-02-04T16:05:46","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T21:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fabricegrinda.com\/?p=308"},"modified":"2023-07-18T12:31:29","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T12:31:29","slug":"the-art-of-hiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/zh-hant\/the-art-of-hiring\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of hiring"},"content":{"rendered":"

A lot has been written about the science of hiring: finding candidates through referrals, having multiple interviewers, getting references from potential recruits\u2019 bosses, etc. In fact, I would recommend you all sign up for the free tips from Smarttopgrading (www.smarttopgrading.com<\/a>) and read Jack Welsh\u2019s many articles on the topic.<\/p>\n

However, there is another side to the equation an intangible \u201cX Factor\u201d that can change everything. It is that indeterminable \u201cje ne sais quoi\u201d that is making me more open minded. One of the candidates we recently interviewed was loved by everyone, came extremely highly recommended and presented extremely well, but I could not help feeling that he was too bureaucratic and therefore would not fit well in the organization and would slow us down. In light of all the positive reactions everyone had, I decided to give it a try. I have been very pleasantly surprised. He brought processes and organization without slowing us down.<\/p>\n

More often, the opposite happens, a candidate meets all of the criteria and \u201cfeels\u201d right but once in the company, it just does not work. There might a cultural difference or even just a personality conflict with someone else that cannot be resolved and brings the productivity of the entire team down. When that happens, you must move decisively in realizing it does not work and letting the person go.<\/p>\n

In both cases, my conclusion is now the same: if the candidate seems great give it a shot. If it works great! If not, end it sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n

In many ways, this is similar to my approach to entrepreneurship: 9 rigorous business selection criteria to choose the business. Once in the business try lots of things through trial and error and back it up with decisive action to take advantage of opportunities or correct mistakes (of which there will be many given the approach).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A lot has been written about the science of hiring: finding candidates through referrals, having multiple interviewers, getting references from potential recruits\u2019 bosses, etc. In fact, I would recommend you … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-musings"],"acf":[],"contentUpdated":"The art of hiring. Categories - Business Musings. Date-Posted - 2008-02-04T16:05:46 . A lot has been written about the science of hiring: finding candidates through referrals, having multiple interviewers, getting references from potential recruits\u2019 bosses, etc. In fact, I would recommend you all sign up for the free tips from Smarttopgrading (www.smarttopgrading.com) and read Jack Welsh\u2019s many articles on the topic.\n However, there is another side to the equation an intangible \u201cX Factor\u201d that can change everything. It is that indeterminable \u201cje ne sais quoi\u201d that is making me more open minded. One of the candidates we recently interviewed was loved by everyone, came extremely highly recommended and presented extremely well, but I could not help feeling that he was too bureaucratic and therefore would not fit well in the organization and would slow us down. In light of all the positive reactions everyone had, I decided to give it a try. I have been very pleasantly surprised. He brought processes and organization without slowing us down.\n More often, the opposite happens, a candidate meets all of the criteria and \u201cfeels\u201d right but once in the company, it just does not work. There might a cultural difference or even just a personality conflict with someone else that cannot be resolved and brings the productivity of the entire team down. When that happens, you must move decisively in realizing it does not work and letting the person go.\n In both cases, my conclusion is now the same: if the candidate seems great give it a shot. If it works great! If not, end it sooner rather than later.\n In many ways, this is similar to my approach to entrepreneurship: 9 rigorous business selection criteria to choose the business. Once in the business try lots of things through trial and error and back it up with decisive action to take advantage of opportunities or correct mistakes (of which there will be many given the approach).\n ","Category":["Business Musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17350,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions\/17350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}