I haven’t met many people who have hired someone they did not like.
Yet, I have never seen anything in any job description that says you must like a person before you offer them employment.
The only three questions you need to answer in selection process are:
- Can this person do the job?
- Will this person do it with excellence?
- Will this person fit into the organization and can we work together?
There is a difference between liking someone and wanting to work with them.
The objective is not to hire friends; it is to hire people who will do the job well and who will be a good fit for the organization and the group.
This was originally published on Mel Kleiman’s Humetrics blog.