Five Key Things in Hiring

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My overall experience of being a manager have been about 5 years; I am still not sure how to hire a right person for a the position. Hiring a person for a position is not a hard thing to do, because all I have to do is to find a person with the right experience and make sure that person does not have any problem performing the job that requires for that position. However, hiring a right person is a completely different story because it takes much more research and effort to hire a right person, but still is there a guarantee that this person is the right person for the position? I am currently managing an engineering team, and I have very tough time managing one particular engineer whom the previous manager hired before he got fired from the company. As far as I am concern, this person does not qualify to be in the team, furthermore, this person does not have the proactive personality. In other words, constantly, I need to make sure that he has enough work to do, and mostly I constantly feel the need of managing him like Jim Collins said. First, although I agree with most things what Jim Collins said, I don't know if I agree with hiring people with same core value is the only way to pursue in the organizational sustainability. Best thing about an organization is that we are working in harmony. It is impossible to only hire people who has the same core value. I strongly believe that we can work in harmony by pursing for the same goal even if we have different values. By going through the right training and practice, going after the same organizational goal becomes possible. We may have different personal goals, but we could surely have the same organizational goal, and that is organizational responsibility and right communication and trust corporate relationship could make the impossible a possible. Second, I really do agree with Jim Collins that if
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