Gut Feeling Isn’t a Reliable Applicant Screening System
Interviewing new people is not my favorite thing to do, especially after the umpteenth candidate—and being officially brain-dead makes it particularly challenging!
After moving our business to its current location in 2000, I physically suffered a collapse from extreme exhaustion. Tons of equipment, furnishings and files had been moved after weeks of logistical planning, packing and consideration. I was all up in the middle of it and the cost was mind-bending. Even as the dust settled, more things needed to be done to get back to normal—like hiring more people. That’s a good thing, right?
Philip Beyer, founder/president of Ebiz Products LLC and founder of Beyer Printing Inc. in Nashville Tenn., is a chronic entrepreneur, business systems analyst and consultant. Author of "System Busters: How to Stop Them in Your Business" and recipient of an InterTech Technology Award for the design and development of System100 business process management software. Beyer speaks to business owners across the country on how to bring lean, sustainable order to their businesses. Contact him at (615) 425-2652.
