Hiring Mistakes We Made As New Managers
Over the past 25 years, Frank and Ian have hired hundreds of people. Some were exceptional while others were spectacularly terrible. In this podcast, we break down our hiring miscues in hopes that you might avoid some of our pain.
- Your best employees won’t necessarily be your best friends
- How the “Just Like Me Bias” leads to poor hiring
- Fighting your first impression which rarely translates to a good hiring decision
- Is there any value in being known as a “tough interviewer?”
- Two parties need to make a decision in an interview. Act as if you are being evaluated as the interviewer.
- The problem with focusing on GPA as an interviewer
- What happens when interviews don’t consider how well someone might fit in with your culture
- What can we learn about someone who was “too loyal” to their company?
- Are you diluting the effectiveness of your interview by looking for too many attributes?
- It’s about the answers, not your questions
- How to ask paired questions to better understand a candidate’s true default behaviors
2020-12-21
66 min
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