Right People, Right Jobs
How do you know the job is right for you?
Are your potential job candidates the right people for the job?
Times are tough and lots of people are on the move which makes the issue of hiring the right people and being hired to the right job more critical then ever. However more then not we become gripped with desperate job seeker and desperate hiring manager syndrome.
How often have you hired the best candidate that you interviewed but really wished for a better candidate? Many have brought friends and family into jobs for the comfort factor but failed to seriously consider if those people were the right person for the job or company.
Management guru and best-selling author Jim Collins is quoted in this weeks Business Week as saying, “getting the right people is crucial to success?more important, even, than your strategy.”
Hiring is often about finding someone that fits the costume and not who will be the best clown. We create job descriptions (often ones that are left over from and custom made for the previous occupant of the job) and then we set about finding a person who will fit that need.
There are many factors to consider about a candidate and a job. Is there a cultural fit? I don’t care how desperate your are for the killer sales dude with the ability to close a deal with a smile and a handshake. If he is a cultural train wreck for your company then a train wreck is all you will have. You can not buy success and ones ability to craft the right team is critical.
In The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive, Patrick Lencioni outlines his Four Disciplines of a Healthy Organization. All of the disciplines involve hiring the right people who fit the company and understand their role.
Least we think this is all about hiring right, landing the right company and the right job is as much the workers issue as is hiring for the companies. Desperate job seeker is the rule more then the exception. This affliction is not limited to the unemployed and out-placed either as it is just as easy to be tempted to move companies only to land where the grass is not only not greener but where you clearly are out of your element and worse off for the change.
Can you honestly say you know yourself well enough to judge if you would be a good fit in a specific company or cultural environment. When the last time you asked a perspective employer about more then pay, benefits and job responsibilities, let alone asking what is the management style of the hiring manager and CEO.
Hiring is never easy and finding a good job is beyond tough in the current environment.