Stop Selling “The Opportunity” When None Exists | No BS Hiring Advice
By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
What’s So Good About Hiring Team Players?
When I did recruiting, one thing I worked hard to spot were liars–people who exaggerated what they did or took credit for things others have done. I’m sure you find it as frustrating as I did to speak with someone who you know within a few minutes sat next to the person who did the work but didn’t actually do it.
One frustration I hear job hunters have with potential employers is speaking with a firm that really wants to hire a drone to do a job–someone is paid not think much, take direction and has no real plans for them beyond doing the job they are being hired to perform BUT TRIES TO PERSUADE THEM THAT THERE IS THIS HUGE UPSIDE TO THE JOB.
I spoke with one developer who told me of an interview they had where he realized within 5 minutes that he was being hired to do nothing more than pound out code (be a code monkey) with little thought, take direction from a hiring manager who would tell him what to do and how to do it with the promise that one day, if he was a good little boy, he would grow up to be a manager of people and do the same thing!
How thrilling (can you detect sarcasm)!
But what are you supposed to say to such a person?
Have you considered the truth? Have you considered that you need to hire a consultant and not an employee? Have you considered that your manager doesn’t know how to manage and should be replaced?
Too many businesses get stuck because they have the wrong people in jobs who have no business being in those jobs. These people kill a business from the inside out, sometimes by destroying talented subordinates with micromanagement or with “rules” that suck the life out of them.
Whether you are in HR, in a line role, a C level executive or board level role, your job is hiring the right people and giving them an opportunity to succeed and your business an opportunity to succeed. Taking remarkable people (you are hiring remarkable people and not just monkeys) and lying to them or choking them to death is a fast path to losing their brilliance.
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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter is a career and leadership coach who worked as a recruiter for more than 40 years. He is the host of “No BS Job Search Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for job search with more than 2400 episodes. He also hosts Job Search TV on YouTube, and Amazon, as well as on BingeNetworks.tv for Apple TV and 90+ smart sets.
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