Big mistakes hiring managers make

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Of the countless mistakes a hiring manager can make, what is the most overlooked?

Interviews are no better than tossing a coin

Hi, I’m Jeff Altman, Big Game Hunter, and I coach people and organizations to be more effective, to be more effective, to do things that lead to greater success. Now, this is a video for hiring managers, business owners, and anyone involved in the recruitment management process that may ultimately influence decisions. This is a mistake I see too many hiring managers make.

HR departments make these mistakes to some extent, but hiring managers do make this mistake. The mistake is comparing the person sitting in front of you to the person who is leaving the position or the person you are trying to replace. And, at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter what the person is.

Because I want to remind you something. When that person joins you, they are the finished product for the day, and you have to remember what they looked like on day one, when they walked in the door, nervous and uncomfortable and not sure what to do in the role you assigned them. By comparing the person sitting in front of you to the finished product, you’re providing an unfair benchmark.

You see, you need someone who can do the job. Sometimes you insist on asking for a higher level of skill, which is necessary, but ends up costing someone the job. . . Well, conditions are created that lead to frustration for many job seekers. You know, there’s a statistic that says, within 90 days of a new employee being hired, I think half of all hiring managers experience buyer’s remorse.

Well, the same goes for job seekers who start to regret their decision to join. I think the statistics I saw were 60% of people doing this. You miss the days of hiring people to do it the way you’ve always done it.

You might think you’re getting a bargain, a discount. After all, you get so much more. But you also encounter new problems that need to be solved.

Recruiting is expensive, whether you’re paying people like me or all the man-hours that go into the evaluation process, the approval of references, the meetings to discuss what went wrong, you know, the post-mortems of employees who leave after two months because it’s not the job they expected. Well, it’s not the job they expected because you oversold it. Stop comparing the person sitting in front of you to the person who has left or who you need to replace.

This is not the right strategy. Just look at it from this perspective, is this person qualified for the job? Do they have an advantage? There are benefits to being the last person. You want to see what their strengths are.

I suggest a test you can do in another video. I commented that most interviews were a bit like a game show. You put people in isolation cells.

You ask them a bunch of questions. Watch how they sweat. They feel all kinds of tension.

All you do is create a question and answer show. Instead, I suggest and have fun with this. Invite people to bring with them resources that they can call upon during their next interview.

It can be their computer, you can give them access to the computer, etc. Just encourage them to take something with them. I’ll ignore this for now.

Take something with you. Awesome! illusory! So keep something with you so you can assess the situation, contact someone or get some advice. Give them an extremely difficult problem and ask them to solve it in 15 minutes.

Then discuss with them how they can solve the problem. It will go a long way in helping you evaluate people. I’m Jeff Altman.

Hope you find this helpful. Have a nice day!

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About Big Game Hunter Jeff Altman

Jeff Altman, Big Game Hunter is a career and leadership coach who has been a recruiter for over 40 years. He is the producer and former host of “No BS Job Search Advice Radio,” the #1 job search podcast on iTunes with over 3,000 episodes. He is a former member of the Forbes Coaches Council. “No BS JobSearch Advice Radio” was recently named a top ten job search podcast. JobSearchTV.com was also recently named among the top 10 YouTube job search channels.

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