Hiring managers look for safe hires. Future employees that won’t rock the boat, have no obvious defects, and are ‘fine’ – but face it, ho-hum hires lead to ho-hum companies.

Fear plays too large a role when hiring. No one wants to be the one that hired “that guy”.

Every week, you see another post from another bleeding-heart writer about how companies need to care more about the feelings of their applicants: ‘10 ways your hiring process repels applicants”.

Time out. Companies have every right to be terrified of hiring the wrong person. Bad hires are brutally expensive, and expenses kill businesses. Dead businesses don’t employ anyone. Everybody loses.

But how do you manage these fears so you don’t end up with mediocre employees?

Look for compatible flaws. What is with the obsession of trying to hire perfect people? Nobody’s perfect.

Perfect People Don’t Exist

Like unicorns or Santa (don’t let my kid see this), perfect people don’t exist. Even if your “perfect” people do exist, chances are that they probably aren’t putting in an application.

Once you accept that perfect is not realistic, the typical hiring process looks pretty stupid.

Review resumes, then find someone with the perfect degree, from the perfect school, with the perfect experience. Then meet candidates that interview perfectly, who offer the perfect answers.


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