Hiring managers’ struggle with interviewing
Interview tips July 11th, 2008Peter Weddle, a Recruitment Expert, wrote about his perspective of what hiring managers typically don’t know and what they think they know. I’d agree with Peter that many hiring managers find hiring a very difficult task. I’d love to hear your thoughts after reading his comments.
According to Peter Weddle, hiring managers don’t know:
- What it takes to write a reasonable and responsible description of the requirements and responsibilities of their open positions.
- When they’re asking for too much in a candidate or offering too little in compensation for the talent they need.
- What it takes to get that description translated into a recruitment ad that will engage the best talent.
- How to communicate the organization’s value proposition as an employer or how to articulate the opportunity their opening represents.
- Where to promote that message so that the best talent will actually see it. They don’t know where their target demographic hangs out online or off and in what specific venues or formats (e.g., email, networking, print) that they are most likely to be reached.
Peter Weddle goes on to say typically hiring managers they think they know…
- How to interview, but just about everyone else knows they don’t. In fact, there’s a University of Michigan study which proves that hiring managers are only 4% better than flipping a coin-they get it right 54% of the time-when it comes to selecting the best interviewee for a job.
- What it takes to attract and sell top talent, but more often than not, they are way, way out of touch. Motivating factors shift from generation to generation, and most hiring managers know their peers well, but are dumb as dirt about the younger professionals who work for them.
- What their unit must do to succeed so they focus on doing-on activity-rather than on recruiting and retaining the resources they must have (and effectively lead) in order to accomplish that activity. Most of them don’t realize that talent must be sold and resold over and over again.
Preparation for the interview is critical. How does a person prepare? That answer is for another blog. You can look up Interview tips on the left for other blogs I have written on this subject.
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