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My new book “Hiring 3.0 New Rules For The New Economy” is now available.  In this book you learn how to adjust your recruiting and hiring processes to best take advantage of the new economic realities.  New competition and a glut of applicants are just two of the challenges being encountered.  You learn how to integrate all of the Selecting Winners tools and techniques to form a successful staffing process.

I spent a considerable amount of time making this book as readable as possible.  Rather than present a lot of theory, the book gets right to the point with usable strategies, techniques and tools.  It is a quick read with each concept presented in short manageable sections.  However, I did not leave out any of the important information.

Please take a minute and check it out at: http://www.Hirng3.0.com You can read excerpts from the book and see the table of contents.

Thanks for taking the time to check it out!



I do my best to monitor my marketplace.  I get dozens of Google Alerts daily on various hiring terms.  This is just one of the tools I use to stay on top of my subject and marketplace.

Today I received an alert about an article on how to select winning employees.  The article boils down to 2 pieces of advice.

1. Ignore experience

2. Interview for personality

The author contended that experience didn’t matter and that personality was the driving force behind success.  He said to identify 8 personality traits, ask questions to see if the person had them.  And if they did not have at least 5 of the 8, eliminate the candidate.

Thanks for nothing!

Even if this advice was correct which it most definitely is not, nowhere in the article did the author explain what to ask or how to determine if the person had the personality traits.  On other words, he told you what to do without telling you how.  Not much help.

I could spend the rest of this post explaining why the advice is wrong but I won’t.  You can get volumes of quality advice on my Selecting Winners Blog.   The purpose of this post is to help you evaluate the the advice based on the source.

After reading the article, I spent some time researching the author.  It turns out the person who wrote the article is a financial adviser.  I am not quite sure why this person was writing an article about hiring employees but it is a huge red flag.

The source of the advice you pay attention to is critical.

It is not a good idea to look for advice on your investments from your golf instructor.  It is also not a good idea to look for hiring advice from your investment adviser. Remember, everyone has an opinion.

Hiring is one of the most important jobs you have as a manager or business owner and cannot be left to chance.

The advice you follow needs to be from a reliable, proven source.  Try to evaluate the source of any advice before you put it into practice.

As always, I would love to hear your comments!

People working is the primary fuel for a good economy.  And people work for companies.  Any proposal that hurts companies and depresses hiring is bad for the economy.  Businesses are not the bad guys but instead we are the engine that provides jobs and fuels the economy.  If someone can please get this message to the knuckleheads making the decisions we will all be better off.

Your comments are welcome!

Why?

Because there are no 10-20-50-100 magical questions that work in every interview.  For a full look at a post where I explain the situation, please click over to my blog at Selecting Winners at http://www.selectingwinners.com/blog

Thanks and leave me a comment to let me know what you think!

Barry

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