We title Hiring Mistake #3 as “Inappropriate Prerequisites”. The metaphor of these inappropriate prerequisites is that hiring top talent is not the same as ordering in the drive-through line at your favorite fast food restaurant.
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A 10-year longitudinal study on executive transitions that my organization conducted found that more than 50% of executives who inherit a mess fail within their first 18 months on the job. We also uncovered numerous landmines for leaders in this situation. And, with the best of intentions, my client was about to step on a number of them. When a leader inherits a mess created by others, especially when arriving as an outsider, the situation can feel fragile and knowing where to begin the long journey of change can feel precarious. Based on our research and my experience, there are six things the most effective leaders do to avoid failing in a new role. Via Mel Riddile
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This was a good article in HBR on why so many executives fail early in taking on a new job. Where to begin is sometimes the greatest challenge. Do any of these landmines sound familiar as you stepped into your most recent role? What do you do to minimize this risk of hiring failure when asking new CEOs/executives to "fix" a mess? 
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Are you victimized by the Top Ten Hiring Mistakes? A number of years ago we undertook a comprehensive study to understand why hiring success and accuracy is so poor. We've written a couple of books on the subject and presented the workshop titled "You're NOT the Person I Hired" on these common mistakes and errors to over 35,000 CEOs and Senior Executives in the last two decades.
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John Sullivan talks about the #1 recruiting strategy to find good talent. In my workshops and seminars I suggest to hiring executives and managers that their target for employee referrals should be at least 50% of all new hires. Barry Deutsch Partner IMPACT Hiring Solutions http://www.impacthiringsolutions.com/Blog Have you read our FREE book - You're NOT the Person I Hire? This best-selling book is available as a FREE digital download on our website.
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Discover how to overcome the most dangerous hiring mistake that frequently leads to hiring failure. Barry Deutsch Partner IMPACT Hiring Solutions http://www.impacthiringsolutions.com/Blog Have you read our FREE book - You're NOT the Person I Hire?
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Avoid these classic hiring mistakes so you can get the best candidates. Barry Deutsch Partner IMPACT Hiring Solutions http://www.impacthiringsolutions.com/Blog Have you read our FREE book - You're NOT the Person I Hire?
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Hiring Mistake #2: Failure to Peel the Onion in the Interview
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One of my favorite questions to ask CEOs and senior executives in my workshop, "You're NOT the Person I Hired", is what percentage of candidates lie, embellish, or exaggerate what they've done or think they can do for you? Rarely, do I hear anything less than 100 percent. Peeling the ONION, asking deep, probing questions, collecting examples, and doing what we call in our hiring process: Putting the Candidate Under the Magnifying Glass - will eliminate or substantially reduce lying, embellishment, and exaggeration.
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When it comes to hiring and onboarding, most businesses blow it. In fact, so many organizations do such a poor job of facilitating the process that many new hires get frustrated their very first day on the job. In order to finish the hiring process on a strong note, you need to prioritize onboarding just …
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Here's the key point buried in this article:
From the new hire’s perspective, one of the biggest points of friction has to do with what’s expected of them on the first day.
This issue is so horrific for most companies, that we wrote a book a few years ago titled "This is NOT the Position I Accepted".
Desire to ensure hiring failure - don't define success before the hire and surprise the candidate after the hire with what they have to do to be successful.
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Google+, Google’s social network, allows for connecting with people based on interests and offers incredible opportunities for recruiting.
Although the author considers Google + to be an effective network for recruiting - I think it's a waste of time to use at this current stage for recruiting. There are much better tools where your investment of time can pay bigger dividends such as LinkedIn. Google+ may emerge in a couple of years as an effective tool - currently it is not useful for recruiting. Barry Deutsch Partner IMPACT Hiring Solutions http://www.impacthiringsolutions.com/Blog Have you read our FREE book - You're NOT the Person I Hire? This best-selling book is available as a FREE digital download on our website. Via Marylene Delbourg-Delphis
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Interviewing remains the most popular assessment for employee screening, but the reliability remains low, often in the 50 percent range. Ira shares an outstanding story that I see repeated over and over in the vast majority of companies - weak interviewing by hiring managers. This is one of the most critical failure points in the hiring process. Most companies do a terrible job preparing managers and executives to hire effectively. In most companies, hiring is NOT a process, it's a random set of arbitrary meetings where each individual manager does interviewing in their own misguided way. The minute you turn hiring into a process, train all your managers, and put some rigor behind it - hiring accuracy starts moving up from the traditional low reliability level in the 50% range. Barry Deutsch Partner IMPACT Hiring Solutions http://www.impacthiringsolutions.com/Blog Have you read our FREE book - You're NOT the Person I Hire? This best-selling book is available as a FREE digital download on our website.
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Zach is one of the savviest person in recruiting talent and are involved with some of the smartest organisations I know who have decided to put talent as their top priorities. ... Barry Deutsch Partner IMPACT Hiring Solutions http://www.impacthiringsolutions.com/Blog
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There are a few key mistakes and errors that get repeated over and over. One of these is using the wrong criteria to at the core of the entire hiring process. Using inappropriate prerequisites like those found on most job descriptions leads to poor hiring success - perhaps at best it turns into a 50/50 crap shoot.