Lou Adler demonstrates why he is one of the most referenced columnists in the staffing industry with a column at ERExchange on interviewing.
How to Use the Interview to Recruit Top People and Prevent Dumb Hiring Mistakes
Sometimes blunt titles are the key to grabbing your attention. Mr. Adler pulls no punches in this description of key mistakes we make in interviewing.
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Every recruiter has lost good candidates due to their hiring team's weak interviewing skills. The result is the need to find more candidates than necessary. Our research with corporate and third-party recruiters indicates that this happens 30 to 50 percent of the time! Eliminating this problem can increase personal productivity by up to 100 percent.
The key here is understanding when the recruiter is falling down on the candidates and when the hiring team is making the mistakes. There exists plenty of blame to go around - and I'll cover the recruiter mistakes in my next post, but these are the areas Lou says internal teams can improve.
- Prevent people on the hiring team who aren't good interviewers to make judgments about good people based on superficial, narrow, emotional, or intuitive reasons.
- Recruit top people by demonstrating that the opportunity is more important than the compensation.
- Assess candidate ability and motivation to do the real work.
This article has given me some excellent ideas on how to do better resource gathering. If I'm brave enough, I'll plop this article down in front of them. Way to go, Lou! I'll address recruiter mistakes next week.
