HOW GOOD INTERVIEWS BECOME BAD HIRES

By Scott Wintrip | December 3, 2015

Just like a few good dates with an attractive person of interest can lead to a bad relationship, a good series of interviews with a talented job candidate can lead to a bad hire.

Why do our business leaders make poor hiring choices? Common culprits include: Weak interviewing skills; Inaccurate hiring criteria; Poor cultural fit; Dishonest candidates; Hasty hiring decisions; All of these factors can cause hiring mistakes.

Your Hiring Style ultimately affects your particular flavor of perceptual blindness, so understand what your Hiring Style is.

When you understand your Hiring Style, you can remove the blinders from your eyes and avoid making bad hires.

  • Tacklers tend to hire candidates they think will condense timelines and hit targets fast.

  • Tailors tend to hire candidates they think are capable of cultivating strong workplace relationships.

  • Testers tend to hire candidates who offer quantitative evidence that they’re right for the job.

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