3-08-2016
Library shelves are full of books which talk about HOW TO HIRE the Right candidate and not the best candidate for your Organisation. Why one should go in for a Panel interview and not 101 interviews to avoid bias in judgment. How more priority should be given to behavioral aspects than the technical skills. They can be taught if a candidate is a quick learner and a team player. How Interviewer should go into the ocean of known and not the ocean of unknown. How to get hints from the interviewees answers and find enablers (bright side) and derailers (dark side). How important interpersonal and intrapersonal skills are. How important it is to verify if a candidate has business skills or leadership skills based on the opening. How critical hiring the right candidate is and how it directly affects the Organization’s growth. My HR fraternity would be quick to scan through this ever heard gyan…
My question to my friends, do we really follow these??
With all these ideal lessons on how to find a good fit, do HR really get a choice? I doubt…
The best fit for most of the HR people is a person who has TECHNICAL skills for the job and he or she gets the offer inspite of lacking in all the human areas the project requires. Anyone who is approved by their technical teams is a fit. Here the technical round is clear and the offer flies from the hr system…… Not blaming it completely on HR but the choices they get.
Is there a scarcity of talent? Are the issues quiet usually the same – lagging on technical skill or communication skills or instability Do you have to compromise on one or many? So the important question is the base, are the Universities making good professionals or are they delivering half ready products? The need must have been very obvious and thats why the concept of “Finishing schools” came few years back. The big question is why these schools and universities don’t prepare the students for the challenges lying ahead of them in their professional lives.
I feel Day 1 in a professional college should be equivalent to the first day at office, the expectations from a professional and that’s how we need to prepare our students for the professional world.
What are your thoughts? Please share.
