{"id":2025,"date":"2011-08-03T10:38:35","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T15:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.strategicsearch.com\/technical-recruting-blog\/?p=303"},"modified":"2011-08-03T10:38:35","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T15:38:35","slug":"how-to-avoid-hiring-the-wrong-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strategicsearch.com\/beta\/how-to-avoid-hiring-the-wrong-person\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Avoid Hiring The Wrong Person"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What Is The Cost Of Hiring The Wrong Person? You don\u2019t want to find out. Instead, I recommend taking an <strong>investigative approach to interviewing<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>For some ideas, please go to my <strong>9th Commandment Of Recruiting<\/strong> video. at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strategicsearch.com\/technical-recruiting-tips\/\">http:\/\/www.strategicsearch.com\/technical-recruiting-tips\/<\/a> and click on <strong>9th<\/strong> (below) to view the video. The caveat is some technical positions are becoming scarcer due to increased demand. As a result, I recommend becoming even more thorough in your interviewing process to separate the wheat from the chaff. Include four investigative checks: a) criminal records b) civil records (e.g. bankruptcies) c) educational verification and d) detailed reference checks. This is the case because past behavior is the greatest predictor of future performance. As a result, you need to dig deep to uncover hidden problems and find the best possible candidates for your needs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Is The Cost Of Hiring The Wrong Person? You don\u2019t want to find out. Instead, I recommend taking an investigative approach to interviewing. For some ideas, please go to my 9th Commandment Of Recruiting video. at http:\/\/www.strategicsearch.com\/technical-recruiting-tips\/ and click on 9th (below) to view the video. The caveat is some technical positions are becoming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,48,49,50,51,45,64,36,52,65,61,43,62,63,55],"tags":[46,37,29,31,47,44],"class_list":["post-2025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chicago-employment","category-chicago-engineering-jobs","category-chicago-jobs","category-chicago-technical-jobs","category-engineering-careers","category-engineering-jobs","category-engineering-recruiter","category-interview-advice","category-interview-preparation","category-recruiter","category-resume-sdvice","category-scientific-careers","category-technical-careers","category-technical-jobs","category-technical-recruiter","tag-engineering-jobs","tag-interview-advice","tag-jobs","tag-recruiting","tag-research-development","tag-scientific-careers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategicsearch.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategicsearch.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategicsearch.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategicsearch.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategicsearch.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/strategicsearch.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategicsearch.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategicsearch.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategicsearch.com\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}