Tài liệu Hiring and Keeping the Best People 6 ppt

The Hiring Process 27

Watch out for these commonly made mistakes when you make

your hiring choices:

Desperately seeking the “hottest” prospects. Don’t assume

that that your firm has to hire the hottest, best, and brightest

job candidates on the market.Why not?

• Winning them may cost your firm more than it can

comfortably afford.

• Their educational or professional background may be

more than what the job in question actually requires.

• They may be so confident of their desirability that they

won’t bring a healthy dose of appreciation and gratitude

to their new job at your firm—and they’ll always have

one eye out for the “bigger, better deal.”

Hiring in your own image. Another all-too-common

mistake is to hire people who are just like you. Many

managers assume that they can build strong departments or

teams by gathering people who all have the same strengths

and personalities—those defined by the managers

themselves. But remember: Diversity in personality, work

styles, and decision-making approaches

• creates richness in a department’s or team’s culture,

• increases the group’s chances of generating creative

ideas and solutions, and

• lets members complement one another’s strengths and

make up for one another’s weaknesses.

Avoid These Two Hiring Mistakes

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