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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: epicure who wrote (102133)1/28/2009 7:37:41 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (3) of 542655
 
If we really cared about hiring the best people we'd figure out (as objectively as possible) who the best employees are, and then develop a test to find people like that- in terms of intelligence, and ability.

That can be accomplished via picking people like ourselves. Picking people like ourselves is not necessarily a negative.

Personal anecdote. I hired a lot of computer programmers and systems analysts in my day and had a lot of success. I did that by picking people like me, in a certain way. I recognized that most computer programmers at the time were Meyers-Briggs "SP." Detail-oriented linear thinkers. I also recognized that I had risen from the ranks because I was a macro thinker so it fortuitously turned out that I had the capacity for handling greater complexity and scope. I discovered all this in retrospect after the difference between my division and others became so conspicuous--we put up systems bigger, better and faster than anyone else--that I was asked by my boss to chop on all professional hires, not just for my own vacancies and to hire all interns. After I had moved into management, I apparently instinctively looked for that trait set in those I hired. What I got was designers, not plodders. Hiring people like me worked in this case.

It seems that I could spot that particular potential in applicants intuitively. Others might be able to do the same for other traits that have proven key for them in other arenas. But I don't know how you could test for such traits let alone apply the principle objectively. Perhaps we should just have the most successful people doing the hiring and picking people like themselves.
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