Hiring the right people for a company is one of the most critical tasks. When looking for candidates, hard skills essentially lead to interviews, and then soft skills differentiate candidates enough to make the hiring decision.
Other interesting observations:
· A’s hire A+’s, while B’s hire C’s
· An outside hire is “shiny”; whereas an internal candidate makes people say “remember when….”
· Select for high performance history, adapts to complexity, advancement ability, ambition for challenging roles, AND no derailing behavior
· Find the “And Factor," which is a combination of apparently contradictory attributes (i.e. future vision and detailed/tactical)
Do you hire A+ candidates?
