The Hiring Hack

December 27, 2019

This hack comes from the brilliant business coach, Cindy Ertman. It’s the answer to the question, “How do you get the real story from a reference when you’re hiring?”

It’s a dilemma for the reference, because they want to be helpful, but they don’t want to share the person’s weaknesses for fear of keeping the candidate from getting the job. So how do you hack that?

Culture hacks are in language…

1. “What’s the one thing they could do to improve?”

Boom. They’re about to tell you the candidate’s weakness.

2. “Would you hire them again?”

This is a true test to see if they’re a quality hire. If there’s any hesitation to say yes, you know what the answer is.

Part of the culture hacking process is to find the vulnerabilities within a system and the new hire process is very vulnerable because you could get someone who makes your life easy, or tanks the company from gross negligence. These culture hacks will make sure you see early warning signs.