Over the years, I have observed many clients (only a minority, thankfully) adopt a Lord of The Manor persona during a hiring process, taking themselves on a power trip throughout the exercise. With candidates coming into their offices to interview for a job working...
The preceding articles have addressed mistakes that occur in the choosing of the candidate for hire. Here, I address a mistake that affects the chosen candidate’s ability to deliver once on board. Getting the buy-in of the internal counterparts of an impending executive hire is...
The second installment in a series of short articles addressing common mistakes in executive hiring. Click this link: Forgetting The “Why” for part 1. The list below contains the common hiring mistakes that I will be addressing. Do you recognise any of these in...
Chiumbo is no longer with us. We had to part company after just 9 months as he simply wasn’t delivering what we needed. It’s a real shame because he really impressed us during the interview process and he had the strongest CV of the...