{"id":45,"date":"2006-05-22T07:22:12","date_gmt":"2006-05-22T12:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=45"},"modified":"2006-05-22T07:22:12","modified_gmt":"2006-05-22T12:22:12","slug":"dont-do-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/05\/dont-do-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Do That"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/GMA\/Careers\/story?id=1977767&#038;page=1&#038;CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312\" target=\"_blank\">This article<\/a> from ABC News&#8217; career correspondent is an interesting read.  She visited a women&#8217;s prison to talk to the inmates about finding a job once they are released.  I must admit, I was debating whether or not to read the article, but it does provide a different perspective.<\/p>\n<p>I choked on my coffee when I read this sentence:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;ve hired people because I got the immediate sense that they were kind, good, decent souls. And I&#8217;ve rejected others with awesome resumes because their demeanors were too harsh.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Please, don&#8217;t do that.  Your gut is a valuable tool in hiring, but it is not objective.  A better approach is to use a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.selectmetrix.com\/Process_Main.html\" target=\"_blank\">process<\/a> that delays the introduction of gut-level decision making as long as possible.  Phone screens and online assessments are the best first-pass options when hiring external candidates.<\/p>\n<p>I am not certain of the author&#8217;s approach in the aforementioned hires &#8211; perhaps she did use a process and was simply making a quick point for her article.  However, the vast majority of customers that we work initially contacted us because they used a form of gut-level hiring that led to poor candidates getting on their payroll.  Hence our sensitivity to that ill-advised approach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article from ABC News&#8217; career correspondent is an interesting read. She visited a women&#8217;s prison to talk to the inmates about finding a job once they are released. I must admit, I was debating whether or not to read the article, but it does provide a different perspective. I choked on my coffee when I read this sentence: I&#8217;ve hired people because I got the immediate sense that they were kind, good, decent souls. And I&#8217;ve rejected others with awesome resumes because their demeanors were too harsh. Please, don&#8217;t do that. Your gut is a valuable tool in hiring, but it is not objective. A better approach is to&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/05\/dont-do-that\/\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiring"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-J","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":337,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/10\/why-use-a-hiring-process\/","url_meta":{"origin":45,"position":0},"title":"Why Use a Hiring Process?","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"October 3, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"We work with customers from around the country who sell in a myriad of markets. 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My favorite line from the article (emphasis mine): Career coach Bettina\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hiring&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hiring","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1628,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/06\/quality-of-hire-requires-objectivity\/","url_meta":{"origin":45,"position":4},"title":"Quality Of Hire Requires Objectivity","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"June 23, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Ere.net offers up an excellent Kevin Wheeler article that explains how gut-level hiring occurs.\u00a0 Here is the crux of the problem: Interviews are examples of how easy it is to abandon the tools of objectivity, the scientific method, logic, and the rules of evidence, for our \u201cgut\u201d or for \u201cchemistry.\u201d\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Assessing&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Assessing","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/assessing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1280,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/11\/worklife-balance-has-reached-executives\/","url_meta":{"origin":45,"position":5},"title":"Work\/Life Balance Has Reached Executives","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"November 9, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"BusinessWeek.com offers up a good summation of today's hiring market in terms of executive recruitment.\u00a0 We could have wrote this article - it describes exactly what we are encountering in a couple of executive searches. 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