Hiring Frustration #5: Poor Cultural Fit

You’re NOT the Person I Hired

How is it possible that a candidate who seems so perfect – they came from a competitor, they had the same job title and functional responsibility, and they actually achieved some strong comparable results in that role and other roles – could fall flat on their face shortly after arriving at your company?

You did a good job asking questions about accomplishments, achievements, skills, and likes/dislikes. You put them through personality testing, background checks, and reviewed their prior performance appraisals. Where did you fail in the interview?

Failure to Measure Adaptability

Most likely you did not measure cultural/environmental fit. We call this adaptability. It’s one of the 5 core interview questions that comprise the heart of our Success Factor Methodology. Is your culture a level 4 rapid where you navigate the rushing water in a kayak – or is your culture a relaxing sail around the lake in calm waters?

Not measuring Adaptability in precise, clear, specific terms leads to a significant reason for hiring failure. Your culture and environment is different that the environments the candidates has come through. Your environment/culture does not have to be the same as the candidate’s prior environments, but the gap cannot be too large – or the risk of making a hiring mistake starts to rise.

To learn more about the hiring frustration of poor cultural fit and how to overcome this common interviewing error, read more about Hiring Frustration #5.

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Barry

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