Posts tagged Job Fit
What's More Important When Hiring - Skill or Likeability?

If you’ve ever filled an open position I’m sure you’ve felt the struggle - do you hire for skills, or do you hire for cultural fit and likeability? This is something we really need to figure out and depending on who you talk to your answers may vary. The thing is you can train anyone to do a good job - depending on the job of course -  we all know you can’t hire someone with no medical background and expect them to perform surgery, but you get what I mean. Given the right tools and training virtually anyone can do any job, so why are we scrambling to fit the perfect skill set? In my opinion you shouldn’t be. Find the person and the skills will come.

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