THE JOB INTERVIEW
HAVE YOU EVER BEEN CONFUSED AFTER A WHOLE DAY OF HIRING INTERVIEWS
Now, lets just talk about the interview. When you do hiring how many interviews do you normally do? Five, ten… I mean for one job.
Ten, fifteen. Yeah. It could be different in different jobs in different positions. But you do a number of interviews. You probably have already had the experience of interviewing different people all day. Right, and how do you feel after that day?
It’s like confusion city. Because you have so much impression and at the end of the day you have so much data, so much information, and then you might discus this candidate with some of the other people who were participating in the interview or who also met these people. Have you had these types of discussions? Okay. And these are very interesting discussions because in these discussions you have things like:
“You know I really like that guy.”
“There is something about him that really attracts me.”
Then the other person says “That guy!! He was dead nervous.”
“Oh I don’t think he was nervous. I think it is natural when you have an interview that he is nervous.”
“Yeah, but didn’t you see his shoes. They were not polished.”
“No, I didn’t see that.”
“Yeah, and I don’t think our clients would appreciate unpolished shoes.”
There are all kinds of strange ideas going back and forth here.
“I thought he looked very intelligent.”
“Yeah, maybe he is overqualified.”
“I don’t think our clients will like him.”
“I think he was too direct. He wasn’t soft.”
Or “I think he was too soft.”
And we discus these things and the funny thing is the more we discus it and the more people involved in this discussion the more certain it is that we are going to hire the wrong guy. Its just a funny fact, it happens to be like that.
Sometimes when you just met a guy, you realized he is good and you hire him, that is normally more successful. Because if we are going to compromise “Yeah he is not the most qualified, but you didn’t like the color of his trousers and I didn't like the candidate you liked the most, lets agree on this guy.” Compromise. None of us like this guy but he didn’t irritate anyone, so lets take him.
Then you might all experience that if these discussions take a long time when you finally reach a discussion and you call the guy to offer him the job he says “Oh no. I just got a job yesterday.” Has that ever happened to you?
Its like – you can get so tired from that experience. Okay, so who was the next best?
So, I admire people who keep doing this job inspite of all the disappointments and upsets they get into.
HOW YOU ARE GUARANTEED TO MAKE THE WRONG HIRING DECISION
If you have a lot of people in the recruitment interview then afterwards you find yourself having discussions and arguments.
“No, I absolutely don’t like this guy. I would never approve of this man. I like that guy.”
“No, I absolutely don’t want that guy. Let’s take this guy.”
“You know there was this third guy, none of us really like him, but none of us disapprove of this guy.” So we all compromise, hire the one no one really wants and that’s one way how we mess it up.
ONE WAY TO HIRE SUCCESSFULLY?
Here is a very normal scenario: A person starts a company, he is alone or she is alone and he just starts hiring people and uses common sense. He talks to them, he might start to have them work a bit and if they are good he keeps them. It’s all based on common sense.
But what happens when his company grows, he has more and more people in it, now when he hires a new person for a job he has opinion meetings after the interview, and there is when the real problem starts, because now, there are a lot of different viewpoints and opinions about “how the person should be in order to work with us” normally you will have as many opinions as you have participants in the meeting.
A SMALL COMPANY HIRING
Normally when the person who started the company recruited, when it was a small company he knew that he had to get a certain job done and so he hired for that job. His focus was very much can this person really produce what I need?
A LARGE COMPANY HIRING
However when we get into a large organization we start to get other factors: it is not only if he can do the job, it’s also “Will he cooperate well with other people?” “Will he be a good representative for the company?” “Will he be ambitious enough?” And we look at a lot more factors and it complicates the picture.
KEEPING RECRUITMENT SIMPLE
A little bit of what I want to tell you today, in order to improve your hiring is you need to go back and keep the basic simplicity you had when you started a company.
NEXT LESSON:
In the next lesson I will introduce you to a very simple interview which will first of all cut down the amount of time you spend on these interviews and will give you a much clearer picture of if you should continue to spend time on that person.
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