Will You Hire This Applicant?
You are the HR Director of one of the most
prestigious Computer Company. Your CEO recently fired the Executive
Vice-President (EVP) of your company who was supposed to be the most qualified
person to replace the CEO who is retiring in three years. You have been
tasked to look for a replacement who would be the best person to assume the
responsibilities of the EVP and would be able to take over the CEO after he
retires. Among the important qualifications that the candidate must possess are
the following:
1. Demonstrated team
building and leadership skills
2. “Out of the box
thinker” must be key driver contributing to the products development and
willing to take innovative product risk.
3. Manage diverse,
simultaneous projects of varying complexities.
4. Strong relationship
management, strategy development, project management, problem-solving and
change management skills.
5. Professional and
positive approach, self-motivated, strong in building relationships, team
player, dynamic, creative with the ability to work on own initiative.
A colleague of yours from another computer
company suggested a candidate who used to work as a Vice-President of a
progressive multi-national IT company who was looking for a job. He
described him as follows:
“He acts without thinking and with bad judgment.
. . . He does not give credit where due. . . . Very often, when told of a new
idea, he will immediately attack it and say that it is worthless or even stupid
and tell you that it was a waste of time to work on it. This alone is bad
management, but, if the idea is a good one, he will soon be telling people
about it as though it was his own. At the same time, he’s a genius. His
imaginative leaps are instinctive, unexpected, and at times magical.”
When you asked why the person left his IT
company, he said that he was forced to resign by the IT company’s CEO.
Your colleague however, knows him personally and not only that he strongly
recommends him, but vouches for him.
Questions:
1. Will you consider
interviewing this person? Why and why not?
2. Will you hire this person? Why or why not?
Justify your answers based on the Big Five Personality characteristics as
described in the lecture slides in Ch 7
3. In Ch7, we learned about the
Selection Processes and Procedures with the list of Commonly Found Perceptual
Errors (Slide #20). If you rejected this person when he could be a winner or if
you hired this person when he is a loser, which of the five perceptual errors
were you guilty of?
