Put Your Candidate to Work
My Inc./Fast Company column is up: Put Your Candidate to Work. Please leave comments here.
When I write columns for a site or magazine, I discuss the areas to write about with the editor. What the editors originally wanted was a here’s-how-to-use-your-intuition article about hiring. I explained that was a bad idea, and I would write a how-not-to-use-your-intuition article 
Intuition is neither good nor bad when hiring — it just is. What’s critically important is to use your intuition to generate behavior-description questions and auditions. That way you gather data about the candidate and your intuition. Win-win all the way around.
3 comments May 23rd, 2005