{"id":2456,"date":"2010-11-16T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/11\/doing-or-helping\/"},"modified":"2010-11-16T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-16T17:30:00","slug":"doing-or-helping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/11\/doing-or-helping\/","title":{"rendered":"Doing Or Helping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This may sound like a fine delineation, but I thought it was rather profound.&#160; One of our customers mentioned that he had people who could \u201cdo\u201d certain tasks in a hiring process.&#160; However, these people were not able to provide \u201chelp\u201d in the hiring process.&#160; That may sound like he is splitting hairs, but I find that point to be extremely important.<\/p>\n<p>One of the struggles in assisting companies in their hiring process is that most companies, unless quite large, tend to hire on a need basis.&#160; This means they do not spend their entire time hiring.&#160; In fact, it often is pushed into the margins of their day.&#160; Other tasks take priority and the mundane work of sorting resumes, answering candidate questions and scheduling phone screens and interviews gets pushed to others.<\/p>\n<p>If these important tasks get pushed to people who simply do the task, you run the risk of neutering the efficacy of your hiring process.<\/p>\n<p>The key is to push these tasks to people who can help in the process.&#160; Not only do they complete the task, they bring extra value to it.&#160; In many small companies, this \u201chelp\u201d can only&#160; come from the hiring manager.&#160; In larger companies, there are simply more options to choose from in terms of specific tasks in the process.<\/p>\n<p>My point here is to highlight that hiring is a critical process\u2026one that should not be completed by whomever is available to quickly check a&#160; task off of a list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This may sound like a fine delineation, but I thought it was rather profound.&#160; One of our customers mentioned that he had people who could \u201cdo\u201d certain tasks in a hiring process.&#160; However, these people were not able to provide \u201chelp\u201d in the hiring process.&#160; That may sound like he is splitting hairs, but I find that point to be extremely important. One of the struggles in assisting companies in their hiring process is that most companies, unless quite large, tend to hire on a need basis.&#160; This means they do not spend their entire time hiring.&#160; In fact, it often is pushed into the margins of their day.&#160; Other&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/11\/doing-or-helping\/\">Read More<\/a><\/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":[2,16],"tags":[529,1748,799,125,1665,38,715],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-DC","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456"}],"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=2456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->