Put Your Candidate to Work
May 23rd, 2005
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.
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1. Jim Durbin | May 23rd, 2005 at 6:02 pm
Good article. One of my three wishes would be that enough hiring managers with political pull read your words.
I think the wish question might actually get me to stand up, shake hands, leave, and write a letter to every executive in that company I could get ahold of.
2. TheBear | May 31st, 2005 at 9:32 am
I read that, I liked it. I would like to know how far you would agree with it. Thank you.
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000300.html
3. Steve Freeman | June 6th, 2005 at 2:32 am
Absolutely! I first picked up this approach some years ago from http://www.asktheheadhunter.com and wish I’d seen it earlier. I wouldn’t have wasted so many candidates’ time asking dumb, hypothetical questions.
S.
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