How to Hire A-Players

Some thoughts on a book “How to hire A-players” by #EricHerrenkohl:

1️⃣”Hiring - is a numbers game”. I used to work with HR specialists, who still can’t understand or simply can’t handle this simple fact: more interviews = more chances to recruit a good specialist for a team. And team would appreciate it. If you don’t respect numbers & funnels, but enjoying only your super-buper communicative skill, you better work in a call-center.

2️⃣A-players hire A-players, B-players hire C-players. If your HR is not a top specialist, (s)he will search & attract even worse players. For top management is a must skill to know recruiting, otherwise they cant build up a strong departments, which means weak business performance.

3️⃣Human likes to be liked by others. Don’t judge candidates by sympathy & your gut feel. There are plenty of tools to understand skills, motivation, personal characteristics of a candidate, if you & your HR don’t using those, prepare to eat some dust.

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08.02.22