How to get best bang for buck employee??
Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 4:26 pm
How to get best value employee? < myleow > 08/26/04 14:21
You have definitely have your share of idiotic employee, co-worker or supervisors. How can you hire someone that is worth the money that you are paying for them?
I don't think the current system that we all use in choosing a potential employee works that well. Current system meaning, reviewing resume. Espeacially nowadays companies hiring for entry-level position requires 2 to 5 years of experience. It is ludicrious to have such high requirement, but then employers want the most bang for their bucks.
A potential employee might have the ability but not the experience for the position, they might be the perfect candidate for the position but how are they going to produce 2 years of relavent experience out of thin air? Google hires Ability over Experience, their employee average age is 27 and only a very minor percentage is above age 40. Please don't start an Age Discrimination flame war.
Wouldn't a case study type hiring procedure be a more direct way of finding someone you really need? There is also Workplace Chemistry to consider and that you can't tell from resume or the interviews. Its how the person thinks.
A case study type hiring process i am suggesting is producing either an artificial or real scenerio that the potential candidate of the position would need to solve (best if its real problem), then post that instead of what the position superficially require as crendentials. Depending on the answers you get from the applicants, go from there. This would determine cadidates by ability. Since majority of the time the best result comes from the candidate with the most knowledge and experience on that subject matter, which is who is best to fit the position. On top of that through the case study, you can see if you like how this person solve a problem, work chemistry there.
The reward would be the position.
What do you think? This is what i am thinking of how to hiring people for key position. Ofcourse you don't expect factory assembly line workers to go through this process.
Regards
Mian
You have definitely have your share of idiotic employee, co-worker or supervisors. How can you hire someone that is worth the money that you are paying for them?
I don't think the current system that we all use in choosing a potential employee works that well. Current system meaning, reviewing resume. Espeacially nowadays companies hiring for entry-level position requires 2 to 5 years of experience. It is ludicrious to have such high requirement, but then employers want the most bang for their bucks.
A potential employee might have the ability but not the experience for the position, they might be the perfect candidate for the position but how are they going to produce 2 years of relavent experience out of thin air? Google hires Ability over Experience, their employee average age is 27 and only a very minor percentage is above age 40. Please don't start an Age Discrimination flame war.
Wouldn't a case study type hiring procedure be a more direct way of finding someone you really need? There is also Workplace Chemistry to consider and that you can't tell from resume or the interviews. Its how the person thinks.
A case study type hiring process i am suggesting is producing either an artificial or real scenerio that the potential candidate of the position would need to solve (best if its real problem), then post that instead of what the position superficially require as crendentials. Depending on the answers you get from the applicants, go from there. This would determine cadidates by ability. Since majority of the time the best result comes from the candidate with the most knowledge and experience on that subject matter, which is who is best to fit the position. On top of that through the case study, you can see if you like how this person solve a problem, work chemistry there.
The reward would be the position.
What do you think? This is what i am thinking of how to hiring people for key position. Ofcourse you don't expect factory assembly line workers to go through this process.
Regards
Mian