How
to recruit the right person for the job
Put
about 100 bricks in no particular order in a closed room with an open window.
Then send 2 or 3 candidates in the room and close the door. Leave them
alone and come back after 6 hours and then analyze the
situation.
If they are counting the
bricks.
- Put them in the accounting
department.
If they are re-counting
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 staring out of the window.
- Put them
in strategic planning.
If they are throwing the
bricks at each other.
- Put them in
operations.
If they are sleeping.
- Put them in reception
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.
And then last but not least. If they are
talking to each other and not a single brick has been moved.
-
Congratulate them and put them in top management
(From
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