The Truth About Candidates
This line is straight from a CareerBuilder.com email blast:
The record shows that the job goes not necessarily to the perfect candidate, but to the person who knows the most about how to get hired. So let€™s get busy€¦
I hope that gives you pause. That’s their bolding too. This approach – knowing how to get hired – is the backbone of bad hiring. Bad candidates can still know how to appear strong, adapt greatly or Google deeply to masquerade through your hiring process.
The fix is to use a process that limits your reliance upon your gut since that is how they pull it off. Use a focused process, rely on objective assessments and use multiple interviewers and you lower your risk of a pretender landing on your payroll.
Posted By Derrick Moe | Assessing,Hiring | | Comments(0)
