While reading through my daily dose of RSS feeds via Google Reader I came across this interesting post entitled “Hiring – No False Positives” by Dick Costolo, the CEO of FeedBurner:
[T]he “No False Positives” school of hiring says that bad hires are worse than no hire because bad employees infect the company with all sorts of issues. Better to march on with nobody filling an important slot than to bring in a sub-par performer.
The hire fast, fire fast approach basically can be boiled down to “it’s really almost impossible to understand whether a person is going to be a killer A+ match before they start working with you day to day, so best to find somebody that seems close enough, and then remove them quickly if they don’t work out.”
One school of thought would most likely be best utilized by those in the sales industry while a company that hires individuals in fields such as mine would utilize the “No Hire” philosophy. Which of these two does your position fall under?