The New Science of Hiring

Care to dramatically enhance your chance of finding great employees? Trade in your gut instincts for a systematic approach to interviewing, testing, and evaluating job candidates.

What was her company missing? Susan Bowman asked herself that as soon as she plopped into her chair at Tri-anim, a medical-supplies distributor in Sylmar, California. It was two and a half years ago. Bowman had just joined the company as head of human resources, and her highest priority was improving the company’s hiring. When she arrived, the HR department was basically shut out of the hiring of salespeople. Bowman wanted to make it more useful, especially after she noticed some hires were fantastic and others were disappointments.

What Tri-anim was missing–and Bowman fortunately recognized this–was something most employers in America have been missing: Conventional job interviews don’t work.

From: Inc. Magazine, August 2006 | Page: 90 By: Stephanie Clifford

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