The Price Was Wrong: Investors Demanding Dot Com Profitability
Most mistakes in the hiring process come from the fact that people are vague about what a candidate can and can’t do. Maybe they like the way a person meets and greets, or they like the candidate’s education level, but they don’t look at the whole picture, and in the end they make the hiring decision based on the wrong factors.
Most important, hiring professionals need to avoid the temptation to compare one candidate with another. What they should do is compare each candidate against the job.
By first creating a job profile and then creating a candidate profile, hiring managers dramatically increase their chances of long-term hiring success—before ever meeting a single job candidate.



