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Giving Employees a Test Run Before Hiring

It’s interesting.  We are working with a client right now who contracted a member on the team to work freelance during this project as a means to determine whether she is as good a fit for an open position as she appeared to be during the interview process.  I love it.  It’s the ultimate litmus test.  Be gone with staid interviewing questions, behavioral “what ifs” and real-life simulations.  Just put the candidate to work and see for yourself firsthand whether he is actually what he claims to be.  Not that all other techniques should be done away with entirely, but at least with this approach, decisions don’t need to be solely dependent on a set of variables that are tenuous at best.

It’s so simple an idea that I find myself wondering why it isn’t more common a hiring practice throughout corporate America as a whole.  Every company knows the nightmare that can ensue with a bad hire and also how hard it can be to get out of once a commitment has been made.  So why not save the time, trouble and money up front?  I’m guessing it’s because there is a perception that tryouts would cost too much money.  But again, there is nothing economical or productive about having a problem employee inside a company.  Clearly, it wouldn’t be an exercise that would – or could - apply to all candidates.  That would be cost prohibitive and unrealistic.  Yet certainly I would think that it could be a prudent effort after all of the prospects have been vetted and narrowed down to one or two.





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