- 19 June 2006
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HOW TO RECRUIT THE RIGHT PERSON FOR THE RIGHT JOB
Put about 100 bricks in some particular order in a closed room with an open window. Then send 2 or 3 candidates in the room and close the door.
Leave them alone and come back after 6 hours and then analyze the situation:
- if they are counting the bricks put them in the accounts department.
- If they are recounting them put them in auditing.
- If they have messed up the whole place with the bricks, put them in engineering.
- If they are arranging the bricks in some strange order put them in planning.
- If they are throwing the bricks at each other put them in operations.
- If they are sleeping put them in security.
- If they have broken the bricks into pieces, put them in information technology.
- If they are sitting idle, put them in human resources.
- If they say they have tried different combinations, yet not a brick has been moved, put them in sales.
- If they have already left for the day put them in marketing.
- If they are staring out of the window, put them on strategic planning.
- And then last but not least, if they are talking to each other and not a single brick has been moved, congratulate them and put them in top management