Hiring Myth #4
Myth #4: First impressions are everything. A candidate needs to impress me in the first five minutes.
The Four Critical Aspects of Fit
As you’ll see in the clips to the right, we teach our clients to focus first on fit, then to look at experience and credentials. Frankly, if the fit’s not right… nothing else matters because the employee won’t be able to fully apply the experience they’re bringing to the table.
Fit will either enable or disable your employees. And it’s the leading indicator that will always predict your business results.
Consultants will be very happy to charge you a lot of money to make this simple concept sound complicated.
It’s not.
Let’s look at it through the eyes of your employees and the questions they ask themselves:
Pretty simple stuff that’s critical to get right if you’re serious about sustained high performance.
HiringSmart Process
Everything we do is geared to helping our clients get the right person in the right job, whether it’s deciding who to let on the bus, assigning people to the right seats, or deciding who needs a transfer to another bus.
Myth #4: First impressions are everything. A candidate needs to impress me in the first five minutes.
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