CHAPTER 1
Are You about to Hire the Wrong Fit?
How Does Hiring the Wrong Fit Happen?
The conventional wisdom is that a person needs to spend 10,000 hours in a challenging pursuit to become accomplished. Yet most managers undertake a key part of their organization’s success—the challenge of hiring the right employees—only occasionally. As a result, it’s difficult for managers to acquire the knowledge, skills, or experience needed to assess a candidate’s fit with much accuracy. Organizations hire candidates with the wrong fit for two main reasons:
- Many interviewers rely on gut feel to assess a candidate’s fit, with unreliable results. There’s no question that instinct and intuition contribute to the assessment of a candidate, especially when ...
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