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Thursday, March 13, 2008

When was the last time you hired Johnny?

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Gerry Crispin (167)

A friend, Ed Struzik, sent Mark and I this link to a 2 minute video about how Johnny the Grocery Bagger transformed his company's culture. Beyond the uplifting nature of the video is an underlying question about whether we look beyond required skills to source and select people who can make such a difference...or even recognize the possibility. Our expectations for people are too limited by our own filters.

 



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Sometimes the Best Hires Are For All the Wrong Reasons from CollegeRecruiter.com Blog
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Gerry Crispin posted a short but great blog article about how employers sometimes deviate from their standard hiring practices and hire people who aren't qualified on paper yet prove to be exemplary employees. It reminded me that we did something...... [continue]



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