Learn to Identify the Qualities You Really Want in Your Next Hire

Many business leaders take a gut instinct approach to selecting talent. This means they know in their gut what they want their candidates to look like, but don’t take the time to fully develop a profile of the ideal person into a measurable description. Even if the ideal candidate is described in a job posting or a job description, it is often vague and lacks clear direction. In a recent exercise with a group of business owners and executives, we explored some of the qualities they looked for in candidates. I made two distinct observations and came to one conclusion.