{"id":1823,"date":"2008-12-10T07:48:07","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T13:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/12\/tips-for-hiring-superstars\/"},"modified":"2008-12-10T07:48:07","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T13:48:07","slug":"tips-for-hiring-superstars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/12\/tips-for-hiring-superstars\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips For Hiring Superstars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Great article here from SellingPower.com – The Best Ways to Turn Off a Star.  I am a big fan of showing people how not<\/em> to do something.  That is a powerful format for teaching.<\/p>\n

In that light, here are 6 tips from the article (in a “what not to do” vein):<\/p>\n

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    1. Talk about yourself and your company.<\/strong> You really don’t need any information about the candidates; it’s all on their resumes anyway.\n
    2. Wait for them to call you.<\/strong>\n
    3. Make them wait.<\/strong> Hey, if they really want to work for your company, it’s worth waiting through your 40-minute phone call to your old college roommate.\n
    4. Bribe them. <\/strong>Offer a free microwave or golf cart to sweeten the deal.\n
    5. Never check references. <\/strong>They’ll just say nice things about the person anyway. It’s a waste of your valuable time.\n
    6. Make promises that you can’t possibly keep. <\/strong>Once you get them on board at your company, let them know gradually that you kind of stretched the truth about that five-week vacation, company car, and corner office.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n

      Spot on, each and every one of them.  Unfortunately, we have seen every one of these play out in a hiring process.  Of the 6, I find the first one to be of the highest importance.  Many times hiring managers judge the success of an interview by how much information they shared with the candidate.<\/p>\n

      Remember, you are there to gather information about the candidate.  You have to sell your opportunity, but there is a time and place for that task.  The initial interview is not one of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Great article here from SellingPower.com – The Best Ways to Turn Off a Star.  I am a big fan of showing people how not to do something.  That is a powerful format for teaching. In that light, here are 6 tips from the article (in a “what not to do” vein): Talk about yourself and your company. You really don’t need any information about the candidates; it’s all on their resumes anyway. Wait for them to call you. Make them wait. Hey, if they really want to work for your company, it’s worth waiting through your 40-minute phone call to your old college roommate. Bribe them. Offer a free microwave… 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":[16],"tags":[257,1762,1119,1755,1120],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-tp","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823"}],"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=1823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}