{"id":1409,"date":"2008-02-07T07:19:28","date_gmt":"2008-02-07T13:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/02\/9-common-hiring-mistakes\/"},"modified":"2008-02-07T06:11:45","modified_gmt":"2008-02-07T12:11:45","slug":"9-common-hiring-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/02\/9-common-hiring-mistakes\/","title":{"rendered":"9 Common Hiring Mistakes"},"content":{"rendered":"

A perfect list from HR Chally Group<\/a> via Recruiting.com<\/a>:\u00a0<\/p>\n

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  1. Relying on an Interview to Evaluate a Candidate<\/li>\n
  2. Using Successful People as a Model<\/li>\n
  3. Setting Too Many Criteria<\/li>\n
  4. Evaluating “Personality” instead of Job Skills<\/li>\n
  5. Using Yourself as an Example<\/li>\n
  6. Not Using Statistically Validated Testing<\/li>\n
  7. Not Researching the Reasons People Have Failed in a Job<\/li>\n
  8. Relying on General “Good Guy” Criteria<\/li>\n
  9. Not Doing A Careful Background Reference Check<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    They are all excellent points and ones that we have experienced first-hand with our customers.\u00a0 Pay special attention to numbers 1, 2 and 5.\u00a0 Those are the most common mistakes we see in our daily experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    A perfect list from HR Chally Group via Recruiting.com:\u00a0 Relying on an Interview to Evaluate a Candidate Using Successful People as a Model Setting Too Many Criteria Evaluating “Personality” instead of Job Skills Using Yourself as an Example Not Using Statistically Validated Testing Not Researching the Reasons People Have Failed in a Job Relying on General “Good Guy” Criteria Not Doing A Careful Background Reference Check They are all excellent points and ones that we have experienced first-hand with our customers.\u00a0 Pay special attention to numbers 1, 2 and 5.\u00a0 Those are the most common mistakes we see in our daily experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[293,292],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-mJ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}