Jay Batson
Sep 5, 2018 · 1 min read

You assume two things: 1) Any person can be the right person for any given job; and 2) People hiring are good at selecting the best person for a job. Neither are generally true. Tell me about those people who turned out to be a ‘bad fit’ for a job. This suggests 1) is not true, and that most managers are not good at 2). Humanizing the process does not address the problem of mistaken hires.

Rather than humanizing the process, it is much more important for companies to stop making hiring / interviewing an untrained / amateur sport, and start spending time teaching hiring managers the rightways to make sure the right person is hired. Pick your technique; mine is “Behavioral Interviewing”, but there are others.

Humanizing the process doesn’t make bad hires become good employees.

    Jay Batson

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    Startup guy, cyclist, musician, DJ

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