STRUCTURE IN HIRING LEADS TO ACCOUNTABILITY

If you lead hiring for your company (or bear the consequences of who gets hired), you have one job initially.

And that's to make sure your company has a structured hiring process.

Without structure, there is no accountability.

Structure means evaluating all applicants using the same evaluation process & documenting the insights collected.

Without structure, there's literally nothing to hold someone accountable to.

WITHOUT STRUCTURE, THE CONVERSATION GOES LIKE THIS:

You: "Why did we hire this person? How did we miss that he/she has Deficiency X?"

Them: "Not sure. We thought we screened them for X but it's been a while so we don't remember."

You: "Um, Ok."

WITH STRUCTURE, THE CONVERSATION GOES LIKE THIS:

You: "Why did we hire this person? How did we miss that he/she has Deficiency X?"

Them: "I can see from our documentation that X wasn't even something we screened for. Let's add X to our screening process going forward."

OR "I can see we screened for X using Y method. Let me change/improve how we screen for X."

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See how structure brings not only accountability, but progress?