Comments on: How to Stop Making Dumb Hiring Mistakes http://www.ere.net/2006/01/27/how-to-stop-making-dumb-hiring-mistakes/ Recruiting News, Recruiting Events, Recruiting Community, Social Recruiting Tue, 14 Feb 2012 01:03:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Doug Nelson http://www.ere.net/2006/01/27/how-to-stop-making-dumb-hiring-mistakes/comment-page-1/#comment-1416 Doug Nelson Sat, 28 Jan 2006 10:43:00 +0000 http://www.ere.net/2006/01/27/how-to-stop-making-dumb-hiring-mistakes/#comment-1416 I certianly agree that you should not hire on a 'whim' because 'you like the person'. We do assessments / personality traits of our hourly candidates. We are a restaurant company...and you know what that means... If we don't hire the person today, tomorrow they will be at the next restaurant getting a job... it is the nature of our industry. I also believe in Malcolm Gladwell's book 'Blink' and in many cases the restaurant industry 'thin slices' for decisions. But here is my question... How do you reconcile the need to do quick hires and that of not just going by gut feeling? dnelson@rockbottom.com I certianly agree that you should not hire on a ‘whim’ because ‘you like the person’.

We do assessments / personality traits of our hourly candidates. We are a restaurant company…and you know what that means… If we don’t hire the person today, tomorrow they will be at the next restaurant getting a job… it is the nature of our industry.

I also believe in Malcolm Gladwell’s book ‘Blink’ and in many cases the restaurant industry ‘thin slices’ for decisions.

But here is my question…

How do you reconcile the need to do quick hires and that of not just going by gut feeling?

dnelson@rockbottom.com

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