Why You Should Stop Comparing Candidates When Hiring 

Of all the difficult decisions leaders must make, hiring and firing are certainly toward the top.

Finding the best people for an open position is always challenging. Often we interview many people looking for that perfect fit. During the process, often two candidates rise to the top. When this happens, something dangerous is right around the corner:

The Personnel Comparison Trap.

In this NEW POST, I unpack the trap and give you some tips to avoid it when you are making your next hire.

Five Thoughts on Including Culture in Your HR Process

NEW POST about culture, HR, and hiring mistakes:

Like you, I’ve made a few hiring mistakes.

What’s frustrating is that they could have been avoided IF I would have first defined and documented our organizational culture.

My hiring mistakes were almost exclusively created by a cultural mismatch. That’s on me.

We’ve tried to fix this by creating cultural interview questions based upon our cultural description document.

In this post, I give you several of our questions along with some helpful advice on incorporating culture into your HR processes.

This should only take you about 5 minutes to read. And it may save you from making another hiring mistake!