Recruiting veteran and expert Lou Adler wrote an insightful article: How to Stop Making Dumb Hiring Mistakes. He points to last month’s issue of Harvard Business Review which focused on improving the decision making process. From the HBR, you learn some causes of bad decision-making in hiring:
- Managers who have biases and perceptions who end up not using enough evidence to support their decision
- A consensus that wasn’t derived from true discussion of diverging viewpoints
- Gut decisions made in time of crisis, therefore not all factors were considered carefully
Adler continues to suggest 8 ways to improve a faulty hiring decision-making process by creating a more formal process, where opinions supported by evidence and true discourse on alternate views are key. For those who are involved in any way with hiring decisions, it’s worth a read.
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