Why You Are Disappointed With Your New Job or Your New Hire
By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
People are disappointed in their day jobs. Employers are disappointed and then do hires. Is it any wonder why each regrets the decision to become engaged to one another?
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I’m Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter. I coach people. I try and help people be more effective in their job search, with work, with managing and leading, with hiring more effectively.
So often, job hunters, employers, are disappointed with one another. Job hunters feel lied to. Employers wind up in situations where they’re disappointed in their new employee. The statistics are that within 18 months of a person being hired, the manager suddenly thinks that this person was a mis-hire. That happens more than half the time. Why does this happen? Let me give you what I tell are the three stories of job search or the three jokes of job search and you’ll understand pretty quickly.
How can you tell an applicant is lying to you? Their lips are moving. How can you tell a client is lying to you? THeir lips are moving? How can you tell a third-party recruiter is lying to you? Their lips are moving. And you think that you’re making a decision based upon information based on fact and as an employer, you think you can figure out whether this person can fit in when in fact you’re dealing with them trying to persuade you that they’re a good hire and a good fit. And I’m not gonna get into recruiters! Often, they’re just the messengers of each other’s lies and sometimes they’re overt liars, quite obviously.
So given the circumstances, folks, you need to ask a better class of questions. And, for job hunters, you need to ask a question, not about “what happened to the previous hire that directly but you have to say, “Was anyone doing this work before? How do they fail? How did they succeed? What did they do well? What didn’t they do well? How were you disappointed?” You need to dig in deeper than what you’re doing. Don’t keep it on the surface. Go deeper. And if they don’t like it, it’s your life.
Employers, I did an article for Forbes where I talked about some of the questions I think you should ask. forbes.com. You can do a search for a better way to start the interview than
asking tell me about yourself. You know frankly, I think the questions that you ask most of the time are way too simple. There’s much too much information about how to answer them. You’re getting lied to because they want a job they want a job with your firm and you’re not getting the accurate picture.
Recruiters are there to earn a fee by introducing someone to you, someone uh . . . a job to you as a job hunter that each of you is going to like one another at the time of the date, but like so many marriages they wind up ending in divorce.
So again, you’ve got to think about doing things differently and as an employer I would encourage you to take a little bit of time to talk about the problems that you have, the issues that you have, what’s gonna be expected of the new hire when they’re on board. “I can’t do that! They’d never take the job! And that’s the point. You’re disappointed in these people. It’s your fault because you’re not telling them the truth. And job hunters, you’re not telling employers the truth about what’s appealing and unappealing in these jobs. You’re so desperate for a job,
that you buy the bull. Really. You buy the bull, both from the employer and from the recruiter.
So, folks, you gotta give this stuff up and do it differently otherwise, you’re doomed to repeat the same mistakes.
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