Here are the top 10 reasons why most managers hate the hiring process, according to Mel Kleiman, CSP, an internationally-known authority on recruiting, selecting and hiring hourly employees.
10. It takes too much time and they have so many other things on their plates. Many managers feel the hiring process gets in the way of doing their “real job.”
9. When they need to hire someone, they need them yesterday. Thus, managers don’t really have the time to do it right and gather all the information needed to make an intelligent decision, and this makes them feel ineffectual.
8. The haystack has gotten so big that it takes a lot more time to find the needles. It is so easy for people to apply nowadays that lots of unqualified people clog up the process.
7. The government has so many laws about hiring that managers can’t get the information they need to make a good decision. Moreover, the HR department keeps telling them what they cannot do instead of offering the best ways to get the job done.
6. The hiring processes/systems are designed by HR people, not operations people, so the systems often fail to meet the needs of those charged with hiring.
5. Most managers have learned the hard way that they can’t believe what applicants tell them, yet no one has taught them how to get applicants to tell the truth.
4. References won’t say anything about their former employees because their lawyers advised against it.
3. The questions managers ask are the same questions everyone else uses and the experienced applicants have all of the “great” answers down pat.
2. As hard as most of them try, managers don’t know how to stop making decisions based on gut feel. Consequently, they end up hiring the “best” applicant rather than the person who would be best at doing the job.
1. In terms of time, money and aggravation, the cost of a hiring mistake is enormous, so not making a decision is better than making a wrong one. Many managers opt to just live with what they have.
