CHAPTER 1
HIRING
INTRODUCTION
Hiring dumb is easy. Hiring smart is hard.
All it takes to hire dumb is to select a job description written by someone once upon a time, a long time ago—one that is hopelessly out of date when compared with the job as it currently exists—and then use that job definition to recruit a candidate who fits the description, not the actual job.
Hiring dumb also involves advertising job openings in ways that discriminate against potential candidates based on their race, religion, age, sex, national origin, physical disabilities, or other legally protected characteristics.
Hiring smart involves defining the job properly and then developing a job description that is more than a bullet list of generalized descriptors of technical ...
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