We were at a customer site yesterday afternoon and heard a great line. This is a large, national company with thousands of employees. Our HR contacts have to work with many different hiring managers and have to debrief with them after interviews.
One of the lines they hear from a particular manager is that their gut tells them no on a certain candidate who has been qualified and assessed.
Our HR contact said, “We don’t like ‘gut’ in HR.”
Amen to that! We don’t like it either in our business. Far better to hear objective assessment analysis and direct interview responses as opposed to anything involving the ethereal “my gut” comments.
If you are hiring today based on your gut, there is a better way.