In todays competitive environment, hiring has increasingly become a key link in establishing and maintaining your companys edge. By attracting and hiring the best people, your company can move quickly and grow steadily. On the flip side, however, poor hires cost you precious time, money, and opportunity. Poor hiring could cost you your company.
Unfortunately, hiring candidates who can do what they say they can do is getting tougher. A whole industry has sprung up in the past ten years helping job seekers land a job sometimes at all costs. You cant afford to hire someone who cant do the job, do it with minimal direction, or do it quickly. Fortunately, there are techniques that you can use to ensure that the candidate you select can do the job. We will examine four techniques here demonstrations, simulations, problem solving, and testing and introduce a powerful interviewing technique High Performance Interviewing that we will cover in more detail in the next issue of Performance News.
Demonstrations
Ideally, the best way to see if a candidate is able to do the job is to have them actually do the job. To have them, in other words, demonstrate...