Comments on: Building The Right Team, With The Right Stuff, in the Right Way http://www.ere.net/2008/10/29/building-the-right-team-with-the-right-stuff-in-the-right-way/ Recruiting intelligence. Recruiting community. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:18:04 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: News You Can Use | Case In Point Weekly http://www.ere.net/2008/10/29/building-the-right-team-with-the-right-stuff-in-the-right-way/comment-page-1/#comment-8385 News You Can Use | Case In Point Weekly Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:26:47 +0000 http://www.ere.net/?p=4552#comment-8385 [...] How to ensure great hires [...] [...] How to ensure great hires [...]

]]> By: David Dalka http://www.ere.net/2008/10/29/building-the-right-team-with-the-right-stuff-in-the-right-way/comment-page-1/#comment-8226 David Dalka Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:50:11 +0000 http://www.ere.net/?p=4552#comment-8226 "A third and very common hiring trap is to hire based on a job description. These typically list a subjective interpretation of required job skills and experience. By highlighting only hard skills, they leave out the most critical elements such as key performance objectives, behaviors, values, character traits, and soft competencies — the defining criteria that lead to effective performance." I couldn't agree with this more...how do we as a group change that back to creating a conversation about culture, common sense and finding the curious lifelong learners who can innovate and bring breakthroughs for my business. At a recent conference it was suggested that recruiters understand this and that a new generation of hiring managers need to be trained on this mindset. “A third and very common hiring trap is to hire based on a job description. These typically list a subjective interpretation of required job skills and experience. By highlighting only hard skills, they leave out the most critical elements such as key performance objectives, behaviors, values, character traits, and soft competencies — the defining criteria that lead to effective performance.”

I couldn’t agree with this more…how do we as a group change that back to creating a conversation about culture, common sense and finding the curious lifelong learners who can innovate and bring breakthroughs for my business. At a recent conference it was suggested that recruiters understand this and that a new generation of hiring managers need to be trained on this mindset.

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