From the course: Management Essentials
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Hiring employees
- The founders of Appster shared their experience in their blog post about lessons learned in hiring its team. We had hired based on gut instinct, and nearly all those early salespeople were a terrible fit. They were actively fighting our culture, and they weren't adaptable. Our hiring failure rate was about 75%. Does the Appster experience sound familiar to you? If you've ever had a hiring fail and tried to identify what happened, you will know that there's a lot of conflicting advice about the best way to hire. I will offer some ideas about how to improve your hiring. First, cautiously use organizational culture fit in conjunction with other considerations. There's an abundance of research and stories from HR experts and CEOs telling us that hiring for fit is the key to success. I agree that culture fit is very important, however, hiring only for fit can lead to unconscious biases that may influence your hiring. So take a hard look at the diversity of your candidate pool, and be…
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