Category: Hiring Mistakes

How To Overcome The Top Ten Hiring Mistakes

We created a video describing the Top Ten Hiring Mistakes and how you can use the 5 simple steps of our Success Factor Methodology to overcome these common hiring mistakes and errors.   Top Ten Hiring Mistakes Video Discover the Top Ten Hiring Mistakes and the steps to overcome them   FREE e-Book How to [...]

Thursday March 22nd, 2012 in Hiring Mistakes | No Comments »

Do Unemployed Candidates Stink?

What’s your bias regarding unemployed candidates? Do they have a stink or have a stigma attached to them? I’ve been doing executive search for 25 years and the bias of the vast majority of hiring managers/executives is to consider a candidate who has been out of work (especially one with long-term unemployment) to be “damaged [...]

Wednesday March 7th, 2012 in Hiring Mistakes | 3 Comments »

Do You Think Checking References Is A Waste Of Time?

I was recently facilitating our, You’re NOT The Person I Hired, workshop with CEOs and key executives. As is often the case, the subject of reference checking came up. Most in the audience tended to agree that checking references is a waste of time. After all, candidates only give references they are sure will say [...]

Thursday February 23rd, 2012 in Hiring Mistakes | No Comments »

Hiring Mistake #5: Historical Bias

A major mistake occurs in the hiring process when interviewing candidates. There is a tendency to equate, extrapolate, and extend experience to be the same as results. There is an enormous gap between experience and results. Historical experience DOES NOT EQUAL results. A candidate who has obtained results will have “enough” historical experience; however, the [...]

Wednesday February 22nd, 2012 in Hiring Mistakes | No Comments »

Motivating Top Talent During Difficult Times

To retain your top talent it is absolutely critical to ensure they are motivated. In difficult times this is often not at the top of the list of the things the hiring manager or CEO is looking to accomplish. Most people are working long hours and doing the job of two people, stress is at [...]

Thursday February 16th, 2012 in Hiring Mistakes | No Comments »

Hiring Mistake #4: Snap Judgments

Hiring executives and managers rely too heavily on first impressions to hire candidates – and as a result make Snap Judgments about candidates.   First impressions impact hiring accuracy First impressions interfere with objectivity and distort the interviewing process. Studies and surveys over the last 50 years have shown the 80% or more of the [...]

Wednesday February 15th, 2012 in Hiring Mistakes | No Comments »

Require A Homework Assignment Before Hiring A Candidate

When the pool of talent is narrowed down to the final two candidates, it’s time for the interview team to come up with homework assignments. An important predictor of how a candidate will adapt to your organization’s environment is to see an example of his or her thought processes, analytical skills, and problem-solving, up close [...]

Thursday February 9th, 2012 in Hiring Mistakes | No Comments »

4 Ways To Counter a Counter Offer

Counter offers should be expected, as nobody wants to lose their best people.  It is a lot easier to make a counter offer than to try to find a new person. Especially one that is top talent. In some strange way a counter offer is a good thing. It signals that the candidate’s current company [...]

Tuesday January 10th, 2012 in Compensation, Finding Candidates, Hiring Mistakes | 3 Comments »

Hiring Mistake #3 – Inappropriate Prerequisites

Hiring top talent is not the same as ordering in the drive-through line at your favorite fast food restaurant. In many companies, the hiring process is a comprised of picking items off a short list. “I’ll take a cheeseburger, no onions, fries, and a medium vanilla shake.” What does this sound like outside of our [...]

Sunday January 8th, 2012 in Hiring Mistakes | No Comments »

Are You Using Best Practices or Worst Practices in Hiring?

In many of my Vistage and TEC presentations with our popular You’re NOT the Person I Hired speaker program, members consistently slap themselves in the forehead, start sweating, hairs go up on the back of their neck, and they frequently challenge me on why I am creating so much pain around hiring. I’m convinced this [...]

Monday November 21st, 2011 in Finding Candidates, Hiring Mistakes | No Comments »
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