Category: Brain Science of Hiring

Navigating Hiring Decisions Amidst Cognitive Poverty, Attention Fatigue, and Decision Fatigue As hiring managers, one of the most critical responsibilities we have is building a strong and capable team. Hiring new employees requires careful consideration and decision-making. However, the stresses inherent in hiring processes and how they affect us are rarely discussed openly. It’s helpful…

In our professional lives, we get better at tasks we do often. But sometimes, complex responsibilities that we might do infrequently, like hiring, can be a challenge. You may be a brilliant Project Manager or IT Director, but if you only hire once or twice a year, each hiring cycle may feel like reinventing the…

Hiring managers have all wrestled with this fear at some point: what if I hire the wrong person? How do I know if I made the wrong choice? Applying Occam’s razor to hiring may help us deal with this fear. Occam’s razor is a philosophy that states: when presented with multiple explanations for a phenomenon,…

And The Solution Isn’t What You’d Expect When the ‘godfather’ of flow, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, went looking for the source of human happiness and optimal experience, his journey led him to uncover something unexpected – our paradoxical relationship with work. It is this paradox, in part, that is responsible for the latest manifestation of discontent at…

“A good manager… isn’t worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who work for him.” — H. S. M Burns Everybody who has ever hired anybody will tell you that hiring is hard, and the hiring data agrees. 46% of newly hired employees will fail within their first 18 months according…

How It Jeopardizes the Hiring Process and Almost Ruined the Career of an All Star From Founder + CEO, David Nason A History of Being Negative (A Time Travel Story) To understand negativity bias, we need to steal a car, but not any car. We need a plutonium-fueled DeLorean. Upgraded with a flux capacitor, modified…

And What You Can Do About It. The interview process is a critical part of the hiring process. Interviews allow hiring managers to discuss and evaluate an applicant’s behavior, qualifications, and fit for the role. However, it is important to understand that an interview alone doesn’t provide a complete profile of a candidate. In fact,…