RecruitingBlogscom

Follow Us:

Question of the day: Can a candidate's sparking personality and interpersonal skills make up for lack of experience?

Follow up to today's RBC Daily:

Inc.com recently posted an interesting article entitled - Top 6 Hiring Mistakes to Avoid that examined six of the most common errors made by organizations when hiring for leadership positions. Most of these can be avoided by using a good recruiter (OK, I added that one) but in reality sticking to an efficient hiring process should help eliminate some of these traps. I was really intrigued by the first pitfall, 'His charisma was intoxicating'. As recruiters we deal with so many people on a daily basis and we’ve all probably come across an individual who exudes a unique magnetic trait, but have you ever been overwhelmed by it?

Question of the day: Can a candidate's sparking personality and interpersonal skills make up for lack of experience?

Tags: Candidate, Hiring, RBC, Recruiter

Views: 283

▶ Reply to This

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Andrew Hanneman on February 22, 2012 at 9:44am

Depends on the position, but often personality plays a big part.  If technology laden job then at some point they have to know how to do it, but in recruiting for example, attitude and personality can easily trump experience.  Of course, that would not count against any of us fine recruiters...just others

Permalink Reply by Sandra McCartt on February 22, 2012 at 5:02pm

Big beats little, pretty beats ugly and a dink ,is a dink, is a dink

Permalink Reply by Christopher Poreda on February 23, 2012 at 10:22am

Yes...all things being equal...people hire who they like.  All things not being equal...people hire who they like.  Have more friends.

▶ Reply to Discussion

RSS

Featured Bloggers

Featured Partner

FreshBooks

Blogs Trending Now...

1. Are You Networking on Autopilot?

Added by Brian Grimmer on June 14, 2013

2. Why Recruiters LOVE Linkedin and HR leaders might HATE Linkedin.

Added by Lisa Zee on June 13, 2013

3. Blessed

Added by Will Thomson on June 17, 2013

4. The King of the Cold Call

Added by Recruiting Animal on June 19, 2013

5. Millennials Own A Piece Of Your Brand (AKA Your Company)

Added by Rebecca B. Sargeant on June 18, 2013

Recruiting Communities

Sponsor

eVoice 30-Day Free Trial

Groups

© 2013   Created by RecruitingBlogs.   Powered by

Badges  |  Report an Issue  |  Terms of Service

scroll to the top