At this point in the course you should be well armed with the tools and knowledg

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At this point in the course you should be well armed with the tools and knowledge necessary to make better-informed and rational choices. Apply that knowledge as you tackle one of the most important, and yet heavily subjective, of management responsibilities—the hiring process.

Assume you have been tasked with redesigning your organization’s hiring processes. Respond to the following:

Select two of the six pitfalls listed below:

Influenced by initial impressions

Justifying past decisions

Seeing what you want to see

Perpetuating the status quo

Framing the hiring decision

Overconfidence

Examine how you might change the process to avoid your selected pitfalls.

Explanation / Answer

Framing the hiring decision- The way i understand this pitfall is putting across in better words in front of HR team the candidature of your pre decided candidate which is not on the basis of his merit and helping him in getting recruited for the role. This mostly happens when the candidate is a referral of an existing employee of organisation. The way i would like to change the hiring process to avoid this pitfall is as below:

1) The referral candidate should never be inteviewed by an employee or his team member who has given the referral.The interviewer should be some one who has no connection with the team or that process but at the same time he should be capable enough to judge a candidate potential for the role.

2) Second and the most important, the candidate should pass through two rounds of interview for checking the role fitment. This wil ensure that hiring decision is honest and the best at that point of time.

Seeing what you want to see: Sometimes recruiters are very process specific and while interviewing a candidate they only look for the skillset that is required to do the current process in the team.I consider this as a major pitfall because whenver a lateral candidate comes for an interview he comes with his own skill set and capabilities what he must have learnt in the previous role and while evaluation him for current position sometimes recruiters forget that the person in front of them knows something else that they might not know.The way i would like to chang the hiring process to avoid this pitfall is advising the recruiters to go with an open mind whenver they are interviewing a candidate.Check him for the position for which he has been called and if the fitment is not right there try to understand where in the organisation his past experience can be utilised and he can add value.

The second reason why i want to avoid this pitfall is whenever a candidate is called for interview in an organisation it has a cost attched to it which might differ from case to case.So an organisation should ensure that good candidates should never be rejected due to recruiter's lack of ability to judge a candidate's potential.

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