1 year long hiring process

Monday, April 13, 2015 Francisco Carneiro 0 Comments

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From FT

I remarked on how much easier and less competitive life becomes as you get older. Once you have got on the ladder you can go on climbing, no further questions asked.

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Instead, it would be wiser to be more lackadaisical about handing out jobs at entry level, and then letting the only test that works — how people perform — decide who stays and who doesn’t.

Luck Kellaway

This is very true. Companies spend too much money picking entry level employees, dozens of tests & interviews. They shouldn't. They should pick candidates with a minimum of requisites and then try them for 1 year. After one year the bad ones should be let go.

We used to run a program where if we have 6 positions to feel we would hire 12 and let go (compulsory) half of them after year 1. It was a 1 year interview.

The results were very good . I can attest to this method. I agree with Lucy the way people real perform is the only test that matters.