A quick word about Hiring and Firing
Tiger Buford
Retained Recruiter ?? I will bring you the best ortho people to execute your business quickly.
Everyone, and I mean everyone, thinks they are good at hiring. We are not.?We fool ourselves.
It turns out that is really hard to size up how an individual will perform in your company culture. Your favorite recruiter can help with guidance, but it really comes down to the in-person interviews at your company.
Hiring
We fool ourselves. We overestimate our ability to assess fit in the interview. We think that we can choose the best individual and pass on the others. For some reason, we all think that we have cracked the code on interviewing because:?
Firing
Let’s finally admit that we are terrible at?hiring?and focus on the area that can make a bigger impact –?FIRING.
Jack Welch just died. Whether you like “Neutron’ Jack or not, his firing philosophy helped GE outperform the competition for decades. Jack’s firing philosophy was to cut the bottom 10% of employees each year, every year, even in healthy growing companies. Brutal, but effective.
We can all become experts at FIRING but not experts at HIRING. Let’s all get better at FIRING.?
When HIRING, you really don’t know?the person.?When FIRING, you really really know your employee who is?being asked to leave.?
A Few Firing Tips
Let me share a few firing tips that are useful so you can be an expert. Assumption: the individual is under-performing and he/she has been formally warned.