Otherwise, we'd
hire people based on resumes alone and not bother to interview them.
Some judges
hire people based on their grades — these are typically judges who got good grades — and they usually aren't the best judges, frankly.
Most rebuttals to calls for more diversity go something like this: We should
hire people based on their skills, not their gender, race or sexual orientation, right?
I know the first impulse is to
hire people based on cost.
And it has the total right to not
hire people based on just about anything — the Collin Kapernik story exemplifies that our nation needs to start re-tooling what it holds near and dear to them.
I NEVER
hired a person based solely upon a resume.
But, I will say, I don't just
hire a person based on paper.
Not exact matches
The most critical
person to
hire in the customer service schema is the manager, says Andy Fromm, president of Service Management Group, a Missouri -
based firm that works with retail and restaurant chains on improving customer service, since employee turnover is directly driven by manager turnover.
Slowly, she built up her client
base and began
hiring people to work for her.
When L'Oreal started
hiring sales
people based on emotional competency, the high EQ reps outsold the traditionally chosen ones by over $ 90,000.
They expend extra effort to compensate for these handicaps when
hiring sales managers and reps.. It's the only way they know how to ensure they have
people in place who can craft and execute a sound sales strategy
based on proven strategies and performance metrics.
Most small businesses choose an accountant — either
hiring a «numbers
person» on staff or
hiring accounting services on a contract
basis — when a business» financial challenges have become too great to handle without expert help.
Plum is a cloud -
based hiring tool that helps small businesses
hire people while saving time on reading résumés, the interview process, and training.
As chief executive of Roblox — a San Mateo, California, user - generated gaming platform on which more than 4.5 million
people a month spend more than 70 million hours playing cloud -
based 3D multiplayer games — he mostly
hires through referrals.
For
people without the budget to
hire an image consultant, Benza suggests finding retail - clothing salespeople you can trust to help you achieve your new look,
based on your daily business agenda, meetings and travel.
But when a set of volunteers rated the responses
based on how likely they were to
hire each
person, the minority of
people who admitted to «real» flaws were perceived as more honest, and therefore as better
hires.
Hire people for managerial positions
based on whether they care about
people and know how to motivate them.
«We
hire people on the
basis of metrics — personality and culture tests as well as skills and values assessments — to determine if they are a good fit for our vision.
Businesses naturally become an integral part of the communities in which they do business — they
hire its
people, contribute to the tax
base, become points of local pride, and much more.
But the truth is that the
person you think you're getting
based on that resume isn't always who shows up to work after you
hire them.
To
hire based on attributes that allow
people to get «on
base,» have all of your employees take the tests and then identify what attributes your best employees in each role demonstrate.
When
people are
hired based largely on their presentation skills and affability, their on - the - job success is likely to be random and erratic.
Nilam Ganenthiran, Toronto -
based vice-president of business development and strategy at Instacart, says the Canadian grocery shopper now looks much like the American consumer did when the company debuted, in 2012: increasingly comfortable with online ordering, and willing to trust
people hired to fulfil a grocery order.
When I look at decisions to expand my business, if I look to
hire new
people, the reason I make the decision to do that is
based upon what the economic climate is going to be and the economic activity of my industry,» said Rowen.
Hiring people out of a sense of friendship, duty or obligation can get you into trouble, says Matt Garrett, chief executive of TGG Accounting, a San Diego -
based managerial accounting firm.
«
People hire in their own likeness, which means they're going to
hire in very narrow box when it comes to the capabilities they're looking for,» says Jennifer Brown, a New York -
based diversity consultant.
It was a service -
based business, so we had to
hire quickly, train quickly and try to get
people into the culture quickly.
The Los Angeles -
based startup, whose mobile application lets
people send annotated photos that disappear, said today it
hired Jad Boutros from Google Inc. as its director of information security.
Veritas has
hired investment bank Goldman Sachs Group Inc to pursue a so - called dual track sale process for Excelitas which could see the Massachusetts -
based company sold outright or floated via an initial public offering, the
people said.
«Large companies can
hire by credentials and screen
people carefully,» said Robert Rodriguez of National Communications Sales Promotion, a Miami -
based company that helps customers manage their sales promotion campaigns.
Mallinckrodt,
based in Staines - Upon - Thames, England, has
hired investment bank Credit Suisse Group AG (CSGN.S) to run a sale process for the unit, the
people said on Tuesday, asking not to be named because the deliberations are private.
This effort is part of Starbucks ongoing commitment to creating pathways to opportunity for young
people in Phoenix, which includes: the 100,000 Opportunities Initiative
hiring fair last fall that helped 1,700 young
people connect with jobs and resources needed to improve their lives; a revolutionary partnership with Arizona State University to establish the Starbucks College Achievement Plan, with 6,000 partners (employees) now completing their college degrees with full tuition reimbursement; and two Military Family stores (near Luke Air Force
Base and Davis - Monthan Air Force
Base) employing many baristas and managers who are veterans and military spouses.
Whether you need to
hire a new sales team, help meet growing demand on a temporary
basis, or supplement the efforts of your in - house sales
people, Strategic Sales and Marketing can serve as your ideal partner for B2B sales outsourcing.
In 2004 he left Sony 550 Ventures to help Univision launch its mobile division and in 2007 was
hired as the seventh
person at Facebook's New York office to inspire, evangelize, and empower partners to maximize Facebook's evolving platform and audience
base.
He also
hired literally the slimiest lawyer he could find (
people hire lawyers like themselves) who got it reduced to a tiny monthly fraction of what was originally agreed upon in 2008
based on his income which he himself provided.
Based on what I later learned from those who were
hired, I would now say that most
people should have said «I'm a great liar» as their first answer.
«The right of faith -
based organizations to
hire people who are co-religionists, who are of their own faith, has been law in this country for nearly 50 years.»
A Maryland town hall attendee who works for Secular Coalition for America asked Obama about statements he made as a candidate in 2008 when he said, «If you get a federal grant, you can't use that grant money to proselytize to the
people you help, and you can't discriminate against them - or against the
people you
hire - on the
basis of their religion.»
«The new memo also defends applying statutory protections for «
hiring persons of a particular religion'to include protection for religiously
based standards of conduct for employees, including in the funding context — and potentially (although this is not said explicitly) when the category of prohibited discrimination that's asserted is sexual orientation, not just when it's religion.
«We have
hired several
people over the last couple of years, a number of which are
based in Memphis, or what we call the Monogram Foods Support Center,» Modica says.
The NCAA tries hard to prevent
people from using recruits to get jobs — and to keep schools from making
hiring decisions
based on which parent, uncle, or high school coach might give them the best shot to land some particular recruit.
This survival tool is at the heart of The Empowerment Plan, a Detroit -
based nonprofit organization that
hires homeless women from local shelters to make this coat, which is gifted to homeless
people with no strings attached.
Not only that, but she needs to lay out the red carpet to foreign -
based companies if they are to consider Britain a good place to build factories and
hire people.
If there was a data
base in place, he would not have been
hired, he would not have been in the cockpit, and fifty
people would be alive today that lost their lives, on that February night, in 2009,» Higgins said.
Even though this presentation is quantitative, it is one
person's experience, and not a
basis for generalization about the state of academic
hiring.
The amazing film
based on a true story — of which the children Rys and Teresa are still alive — and with a wonderful cast to portray it is highlighted by the flawless direction of Niki Caro, «
hired not because she was a woman, but she was the right
person for this movie, being both pragmatic and creative» Levin said.
«Even if they had, we don't discriminate when
hiring or choosing partners
based on
people's personal beliefs.
Based on the novel by James Sallis, the lean - and - mean picture stars Ryan Gosling as Driver — a stunt driver moonlighting as a getaway - driver - for -
hire who gets mixed up with the wrong
people.
In the future, there is a good chance that more and more companies will
hire based on
people's portfolio of work and demonstrated competencies (many in Silicon Valley already do this), for which these sorts of micro-certificates and badges are tailor made.
You may need time to see if this role is needed on a full - time
basis, and if the
person you
hire is the right fit for your needs and your team.