Whether you are a human resource professional, department or division head, or team leader, you should understand the risks inherent with all new hires.
You should do your best to ask candidates the “right” questions, then analyze their responses to determine if they represent a successful “marriage” of employer and employee. Become comfortable with the reality that not every hire you make will become the company’s next superstar. Your odds of making productive hiring decisions will go up sharply if you try to avoid the most common mistakes made daily in every company.
The “I need someone right now” syndrome is probably the most common and, certainly, the most understandable hiring mistake. Does this scenario sound familiar? An employee resigns or is terminated for cause. Your five-person team is now a four-person team. You need a talented warm body right now before you lose the rest of your team to exhaustion or depression. Try to keep the word “talented” with the rest of the “warm body” phrase. Hiring the next available candidate could prove to be a career-threatening mistake.
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