86: How to Hire Smart, with Bonni Stachowiak
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2013
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Bonni Stachowiak: Teaching in Higher Ed
Bonni is the host of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast, Dean of Teaching and Learning and Professor of Business and Management at Vanguard University, and my life partner. Prior to her academic career, she was a human resources consultant and executive officer for a publicly traded company. Bonni is the author of The Productive Online and Offline Professor: A Practical Guide*.
Virtually all leaders in organizations are called upon to manage (or at least be part of) the hiring process. In this episode, Bonni and I look at some common mistakes made in the hiring process and some straightforward things you can do to get better results in your hiring decisions.
Common Failures in the Hiring Process:
1. Testing for interview skills instead of what it will take to do the job well
- Utilize behavioral interview questions
- Test for skills instead of only considering interview responses
- Book recommendation: Hiring Smart! by Pierre Mornell
2. Falling victim to the halo effect
- Sometimes one positive thing inappropriately interferes with our perceptions
- Define your criteria in advance of meeting with candidates
- Use multiple data points
3. Missing small clues along the way
- Have a multi-step process and track the individual’s progress through it
4. Forgetting that the very best candidates are interviewing you as much as you are interviewing them
Look at your process from an outsider’s perspective
5. Not leveraging technology
- Leverage services that will help you connect with candidates
- Remember the hidden job market
A mentioned a brief note about episode #85
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| 0:00.0 | What's the best thing you can do during the hiring process? |
| 0:03.4 | Today we are going to look at some best practices. |
| 0:06.2 | This is coaching for leaders, episode number 86. |
| 0:09.3 | Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential. |
| 0:15.0 | Greetings to you from Orange County, California. |
| 0:21.0 | This is Coaching for Leaders, and I'm your host Dave Stahopier. |
| 0:26.1 | This is a weekly show that helps smart people improve their communication and leadership |
| 0:31.2 | skills. And many of us in leadership roles find ourselves in situations where we need to bring |
| 0:37.2 | on new members of our teams, whether that is in a formal way in hiring or maybe it's just getting more people on to a team that are |
| 0:45.1 | volunteering and doing work informally or maybe just finding new partnerships and there are definitely |
| 0:51.2 | some best practices for doing that effectively and some common things that people run into as far as missteps in this process. |
| 1:00.0 | And so I have found the person I know best who knows most about hiring and that's Bonnie Stahoviac. |
| 1:06.6 | She's back. |
| 1:07.6 | Hello Dave. |
| 1:08.6 | I'm so glad you're back and for those who don't know, you used to be a vice president of human resource development for a large organization. |
| 1:17.5 | And so in addition to a lot of your academic experience, you've done a lot of hiring in the past and actually |
| 1:24.4 | are still doing hiring even in your academic work on committees and hiring people and so |
| 1:29.2 | we thought that this would be a good topic for us to look at because a lot of leaders really do face |
| 1:33.4 | this on a regular basis. Yeah early in my career I actually did a ton of hiring I was |
| 1:38.6 | working for a company that was growing really rapidly and so I made hiring mistakes right out of the gate I mean I just did not miss a beat so the first |
| 1:46.8 | person that I hired wound up being the first person I needed to terminate their |
| 1:52.3 | employment the first person that then tried to claim that they should |
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