{"id":17,"date":"2006-05-10T12:14:15","date_gmt":"2006-05-10T17:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=17"},"modified":"2006-05-16T07:21:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-16T12:21:00","slug":"bad-hires-that-lead-to-a-bad-fit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/05\/bad-hires-that-lead-to-a-bad-fit\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Hires That Lead to a Bad Fit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.careerjournal.com\/columnists\/theorypractice\/20060503-theorypractice.html?mod=RSS_Career_Journal&#038;cjrss=frontpage\" target=\"_blank\">This article<\/a> from CareerJournal.com speaks to a common problem &#8211; good hires who are a bad fit for the position.  There are many variables within a minimally structured hiring process.  To simplify the equation, either the position was not clearly defined or, more likely, the employee&#8217;s skills, style and motivations were assumed or unknown during the hiring process.<\/p>\n<p>From the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Employers are well-schooled in how to eliminate jobs or fire poor performers. Yet they often don&#8217;t know what to do with people who are doing their work passably, or even better, but aren&#8217;t suited for the job, for reasons ranging from personal chemistry to mismatched skills.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>In that gray area, employers often fumble, either keeping people on because they don&#8217;t know what else to do, or seeking evidence of poor performance &#8212; even when that isn&#8217;t the real issue.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The real danger here is a subtle lowering of performance standards.  This approach leads to accepting mediocrity which can dilute a high performance culture.  The best solution is to use a reliable, repeatable hiring process that identifies the position&#8217;s needs and the candidate&#8217;s abilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article from CareerJournal.com speaks to a common problem &#8211; good hires who are a bad fit for the position. There are many variables within a minimally structured hiring process. To simplify the equation, either the position was not clearly defined or, more likely, the employee&#8217;s skills, style and motivations were assumed or unknown during the hiring process. From the article: &#8220;Employers are well-schooled in how to eliminate jobs or fire poor performers. Yet they often don&#8217;t know what to do with people who are doing their work passably, or even better, but aren&#8217;t suited for the job, for reasons ranging from personal chemistry to mismatched skills. In that gray&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/05\/bad-hires-that-lead-to-a-bad-fit\/\">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],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-h","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"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! -->