Hire With Your Head

Job-Based Hiring

When you hire, don’t let your emotions get the best of you. The biggest mistake that hiring managers make is judging candidates based on their ability to give good interviews. They let feelings, biases, stereotypes and first impressions guide their decision-making. Instead, to recruit and hire the best people, set up a system based on knowing what the job entails. One such system is "Power hiring," which suggests screening five basic components:

1. Performance profiles - Use a job description, including duties and responsibilities, as your criteria instead of only assessing the candidate’s skills, experience and personality traits. To hire superior people, first define superior performance.
2. Objective evaluations - Use basic questions to assess an interviewee’s competency accurately. Look at how well the person has performed in the past, since that is the best predictor of future performance.
3. Wide-ranging sourcing - Think of recruitment sourcing as marketing rather than as advertising, and broaden your scope. Recruit the best people for a job based on understanding the factors that would motivate top-notch...