Comments on: Likeability http://www.secretan.com/blog/index.php/likeability/ by Lance Secretan Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:18:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Barbara Monahan http://www.secretan.com/blog/index.php/likeability/comment-page-1/#comment-13726 Barbara Monahan Sun, 09 Aug 2009 12:38:51 +0000 http://www.secretan.com/blog/?p=646#comment-13726 As a hiring manager I first screen resumes for the skill set and education that fits the position. Some aspects I look for while interviewing the qualified candidates is likability between the people and company and whether the person really can do the job. When a candidate passes through this first interview, I have them interview with the team. It is important, and I share this with the candidate, that the team and candidate feel a fit ~ likeability. We spend most of our lives working with our colleagues. We want to be with people we enjoy, who will support and encourage us. Getting the job done well will happen naturally when the qualifications meet the position and there is likeability. As a hiring manager I first screen resumes for the skill set and education that fits the position. Some aspects I look for while interviewing the qualified candidates is likability between the people and company and whether the person really can do the job. When a candidate passes through this first interview, I have them interview with the team. It is important, and I share this with the candidate, that the team and candidate feel a fit ~ likeability.

We spend most of our lives working with our colleagues. We want to be with people we enjoy, who will support and encourage us. Getting the job done well will happen naturally when the qualifications meet the position and there is likeability.

]]> By: linda bruce http://www.secretan.com/blog/index.php/likeability/comment-page-1/#comment-13719 linda bruce Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:58:49 +0000 http://www.secretan.com/blog/?p=646#comment-13719 You are so right Lance. Back in a job where I was lucky enough to hire people, I used to hire people with no jobs to offer them. If I had the right vibe from them, I knew that they would bring work in because of their talents. And I never had to let any of these folks go, work did come. I used to hate interviewing, instead I would have a simple conversation. If I had to get someone else's opinion I knew it was not the magic I was looking for. You are so right Lance. Back in a job where I was lucky enough to
hire people, I used to hire people with no jobs to offer them. If I had
the right vibe from them, I knew that they would bring work in because
of their talents. And I never had to let any of these folks go, work
did come. I used to hate interviewing, instead I would have a simple
conversation. If I had to get someone else’s opinion I knew it was not
the magic I was looking for.

]]> By: David Zweig http://www.secretan.com/blog/index.php/likeability/comment-page-1/#comment-13718 David Zweig Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:15:20 +0000 http://www.secretan.com/blog/?p=646#comment-13718 Precisely so. Another quality, that I would put just below likability, but is usually underrated is: enthusiasm. In hiring, many interviewers feel somewhat constrained by formula: 3 years or this, extensive that. It's a precise set of ingredients to be followed as closely as a recipe for baking bread. Sometimes the right bowl of ingredients finally plops down across from you and you just don't like her. Or he's sullen. Many interviewers wish it were otherwise. In such cases, genuine enthusiasm for the industry or the work or the community helps overcome such deficits. In this economy I supposed many people are interviewing because they must, not because they want to. In such a field, true enthusiasm shows up like like a bright flashlight at night, a mile distant. How do you generate real enthusiasm? I had the privilege of spending two days working with a man who has identified his own Destiny-Cause-Calling, and when skeptics went after him about certain projects, nothing could knock him off course. Most impressive. Precisely so. Another quality, that I would put just below likability, but is usually underrated is: enthusiasm. In hiring, many interviewers feel somewhat constrained by formula: 3 years or this, extensive that. It’s a precise set of ingredients to be followed as closely as a recipe for baking bread. Sometimes the right bowl of ingredients finally plops down across from you and you just don’t like her. Or he’s sullen. Many interviewers wish it were otherwise. In such cases, genuine enthusiasm for the industry or the work or the community helps overcome such deficits.

In this economy I supposed many people are interviewing because they must, not because they want to. In such a field, true enthusiasm shows up like like a bright flashlight at night, a mile distant. How do you generate real enthusiasm? I had the privilege of spending two days working with a man who has identified his own Destiny-Cause-Calling, and when skeptics went after him about certain projects, nothing could knock him off course. Most impressive.

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