Comments on: Intuition: An Important Talent Attraction Tool

By: EJ Demers

EJ Demers — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:38:36 +0000

HI Wendy, this was great post we all need to listen and flex “intuition” muscle.

By: Paul Barrow

Paul Barrow — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:57:19 +0000

Great post, thanks for sharing. First impressions are probably more important that most people realize. I still think about lessons learned in Gladwell’s “Blink.” The big “test” for me is body language, it speaks volumes to my “intuition.”

By: Glen

Glen — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:02:48 +0000

Hi Wendy…I certainly appreciate the discussion as well. Having worked with that Human Capital Scientist and raised by one (as described in the last N), they would argue phonetics in terms of actual validity…by itself, intuition ranks way down the list of accurate prediction (legalities aside). But, used in an acronym, you actually describe various assessments in letters such as N, I and T’s, which when structured, standardized, delivered consistently and fair to all prospects, you do collect valuable, predictive information to make sound selection decisions (sometimes hard to do on every single candidate). So aside from the true definition of the word, my colleagues (and father) would certainly agree with your methodologies

By: rob aubrey

rob aubrey — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:54:27 +0000

Thanks Wendy, obviously Sherrie did well with you.

I have taken a few classes on finding and hiring talent. You are so right when you say “Companies cannot afford the costs involved in putting the wrong person in a position”

One of the exercises we did gave us a formula for a bad hire, if they are under $100k a year, it is at least a one year salary and over could be 1.5 times their annual salary. When you factor in all the time spent on their salary, training, then re-doing the whole process. Not to mention opportunity cost. I try not to go there, it hurts too much.

rob

By: Pat Bannan

Pat Bannan — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:47:41 +0000

This is such an important topic, Wendy- I love the fact that you are putting this out for discussion. My life experience has taught me that intuition is both valuable and valid. I agree that listening and observing are important interviewing skills- you cannot gather very much information if you are doing all of the talking… and this is a lesson I had to learn as a new manager while recruiting. It took me awhile to slow down and let the candidate tell me who they were, rather than drill them down with questions and facts. I think that once I realized this, I instinctively made better hiring decisions.

I can recall joining an office as an agent some years ago, and while touring the building I was shown a desk, and I thought: “this is not going to work”. How I wish I listened to my intuition then and not 8 months and many thousand dollars later!

Thanks for opening up a great topic- I look forward to the conversation.