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The Four Worst Hiring Mistakes

  

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From our friends at Inc.com, here's an article covering The Four Worst Hiring Mistakes that a manager or business owner can make.  However, a better title might be the "Four Different Hiring Personalities" because the article looks at such problems as the over-thinking manager, the perfectionist, last minute manager, and the "just like me" narcissistic manager.   Depending on the business requirements at the time, we've at times found ourselves in positions where we displayed some of those behaviors.

If you had to insert pre-employment testing users into one of those categories, they might fall into either the perfectionist or the over-thinking manager.  They are looking for the perfect candidate and/or they may give too much weight to the test results.  That's why we advocate that the employment test results should not be the sole basis for a hiring decision.  Instead the test scores will help complete the true picture of the applicant.

That said, we're not even sure that those represent the actual worst hiring mistakes that can be made, as there was no mention of hiring friends or relatives (our personal favorite).  But the mistakes listed there are valid and the article does provide some simple techniques to avoid them in the future.