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This is a link-and run post because the article I refer to is so excellent and pithy it could not be summarized without losing something in the translation.
BLR Founder and Publisher Bob Brady writes:Hire in Haste, Regret at Leisure
After a good anecdote, Bob sets the tone with:
There is an old saying that “you hire people for ‘what they know’ and fire them for ‘who they are.’” . . .
Getting a fix on “who people are” is the hallmark of an HR professional. Most of you are better at this than I am, but at the risk of being presumptuous, here are a few practices that have helped me.
Bob continues with practical tips for what he calls “looking for life skills.”
If you do any hiring, take a moment to read these tips.
Bob’s description of “life skills” could be confused with “personality,” tempting one to substitute personality testing for the type of careful crafting of questions and creation of scenarios to look for evidence of “life skills” that Bob advocates.
I suggest that may be a mistake, as these “life skills” can be found in people of quite different “personality types.”
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