Re:Hiring and the market for lemons (2016)
by spitfire on Friday April 13, 2018 @06:29PM
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I've posted this a few times before (taken shamelessly from tokenadult), but I'll post it again:
There are three main criteria for hiring (in knowledge work environments):
1 General mental ability (Are they generally smart)
2 Work sample test (of real, representative work, no hazing!)
3 Integrity (Because 1 and 2 don't matter if you hire a psychopath or narcissist(cough) ).
For 1 and 3 there are well known tests and you can find psychologists to administer them. Apply these tests evenly to everyone, even the people you're sure you want.
The other approach you can take is the IBM/60's corporate approach. Which is apply the above approach to the "office girls" EI: general population and train the smart ones for the job. This can work surprisingly well if you have good people in leadership.
There are three main criteria for hiring (in knowledge work environments):
1 General mental ability (Are they generally smart) 2 Work sample test (of real, representative work, no hazing!) 3 Integrity (Because 1 and 2 don't matter if you hire a psychopath or narcissist(cough) ).
For 1 and 3 there are well known tests and you can find psychologists to administer them. Apply these tests evenly to everyone, even the people you're sure you want.
The other approach you can take is the IBM/60's corporate approach. Which is apply the above approach to the "office girls" EI: general population and train the smart ones for the job. This can work surprisingly well if you have good people in leadership.
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