Top Ten Hiring Mistakes - #9 - Comparing Candidates

Hiring is a critical skill for managers, and especially so for executives. And managers and executives have been making the same hiring mistakes for the past 30 years. Here's your rogue's gallery of hiring (which is separate from interviewing.)

When we are job candidates we assume we are being compared to other candidates. "May the best candidate win." And, in most cases, frankly, this is true: companies compare candidates to one another. But it is also a classic hiring mistake, because even if the company hires the best candidate, that candidate may not be good enough to do the job.. The best candidate of a bad bunch of candidates - for all kinds of reasons - is likely not good enough to hire. Here's how to avoid this classic hiring mistake.