Nowadays, finding a right people for the job becomes a very popular topic. A same company managed by different people will produce different results. As you can see in real world, a money losing company can also make a lot of profit after the CEO had been changed. So, it’s all about people. It is people make the success. It is also people make the failure. Of course, the corporate owners do not want to recruit another stupid into their company as they already have a lot of stupid in their company. Had you ever heard about this proverb? The next stupid will go inside the company at next recruitment.
Since a lot of management gurus say that people is the company most valuable asset, then finding a right people for the job becomes very important. That’s why a lot of interview methods had been created such as individual profiling questionnaires, personality test, situational handling and so on.
For example, a company wants to recruit a right people for the job of administration. The company activates the CCTV at the meeting room and asks all the candidates to wait in the room. Then, bosses will observe what they are doing. Some candidates will start to talk to each other. Some will just read the magazines inside the room. Some will start to play with their latest mobile phone. So, guess who will eliminate first. Since the company wants someone who can sit down and do the work quietly, then the one who talk a lot will be eliminated first.
Below is another good example on how to recruit the right people for the job:
Put about 100 bricks in no particular order in a closed room with an open window.
Each time, send 2 or 3 candidates in the room and close the door.
Leave them alone and come back after 6 hours to analyze the situation.
If they are counting the bricks, put them in the Accounts Department.
If they are recounting them, put them in Auditing.
If they have messed up the whole place with the bricks, put them in Engineering.
If they are arranging the bricks in some strange order, put them in Planning.
If they are throwing the bricks at each other, put them in Operations.
If they are sleeping, put them in Security.
If they have broken the bricks into pieces, put them in Information Technology.
If they are sitting idle, put them in Human Resources.
If they say they have tried different combinations, yet not a brick has been moved, put them in Sales.
If they have already left for the day, put them in Marketing.
If they are staring out of the window, put them in Strategic Planning.
If they are going out for coffee with bricks manufacturer, put them in Purchasing.
If they stack the bricks, put them in Warehouse.
If they are writing work instruction on how to arrange the bricks, put them in Process.
If they are comparing one brick with another brick, put them in Quality Assurance.
If they throw all the bricks out from the window, put them in Management.
If they are standing around talking to each other and not a single brick has been moved, congratulate them and put them in Top Management.
In summary, be careful when you are going out for your next interview. Take note on your behavior once you enter the company. The bosses are studying your behavior. You may act a little bit but do not do it overly. For bread and butter, then no choice, we have to act a little bit. It is not good to act? We should be who we are? Want the job or not? Want! Then, just act!
This made my day! It’s totally funny because almost all of us who has worked in an office at least once, know that there is some truth to this. But cash today is pretty hard to come by, at least for most of us, so yes a bit of acting might actually help.