Inc. Magazine's "How to make great hires"

This month's Inc features information on how to make great hires. They make suggestions like having all of your candidates in the same room for an interview, giving them personality and intelligence tests and putting them through rounds of interviews. While more information can always help your analysis........are we not forgetting that it is once again becoming the candidates market? By the time you get through the process...your candidate has joined another company....one that nurtured them from the beginging.

I think these days, you are hard pressed to find a company so desirable - it can actually demand a lenghthy, painful examination of any one candidate. And if a company does take this route...how many people is it excluding because they are not willing to go through the process?

As a headhunter, my experience has been that the best candidates are not looking .....they are happily entrenched in the work they are passionate about doing. To extract them from that situation is a delicate task that takes patient nurturing, subliminal sales and counseling techniques and precise timing. (A very cool, recently funded technology always helps too.)

While I applaud the coverage of the various techniques....I beg companies to think about their process adn how they are selling and treating their candidates. A good interview experience for one person....who may talk to 10 others is great free PR.

Hiring is much more an Art then a Science.