Finding the perfect candidate is the desire when you have to hire a new employee. How often does it happen? I think if you look at how most define perfect- it never happens. It is like dating or picking a team for kickball or softball, you have to try to find the optimal person, given what is available.
What is the key? Ideally, it's having the information so you can most accurately and objectively predict future performance. And inside this predictive information, in each of the imperfect candidates, its being able to understand the full package -the good, the bad and the ugly so you can make the best decision.
Contributed by Charlene Castillo on 11th of March 2016 02:23:52 PM
Key to this process is the accurate and insightful data that can effectively support decision-making in each of these areas:
1. Who should we be attracting?
2. Who should we hire?
3. How can we bring them up to a level of high performance rapidly?
4. How can we create a positive mutually beneficial relationship between the employee and the company?
5. How can we manage them so that they perform at a high level and as close to optimally as possible?
6. How can we best make decisions about who should do what next and deal with the what ifs so we are prepared if we lose key people for health or other reasons.
Contributed by alan on 31st of March 2012 12:43:18 PM
Today, I attended the Wall Street Journal series of events entitled How I Built It. As a follow-on to their ongoing column where they profile entrepreneurs who have built successful enterprises, they are doing a small "nationwide" tour where their small business editor (and the audience) interviews a group of 6 of these folks in an attempt to better understand their experiences, success models etc…
At today's even t(3/31/11), attendees included the founders/co-founders from the following firms: Popchips, One Kings Lane, Thrillist.com, Ouidad and Reef.
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