JOTD: HOW TO RECRUIT THE RIGHT PERSON FOR THE JOB

HOW TO RECRUIT THE RIGHT PERSON FOR THE JOB


Put about 100 bricks in no particular order in a closed room with an open window.

Then send two or three candidates into the room and close the door.

Leave them for 6 hours, them come back and analyse 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 are arranging the bricks in some strange order:

Put them in Planning



If they have broken the bricks into pieces:

Put them in Information Technology



If they say they have tried different combinations, yet not a brick has been moved:

Put them in Sales



If they are throw ing the bricks at each other:

Put them in Operations



If they have messed up the whole place with the bricks:

Put them in Engineering



If they are staring out of the window:

Put them in Strategic Planning



If they are sitting idle:

Put them in Human Resources



If they are sleeping:

Put them in Reception



If they have already left for the day:

Put them in Marketing



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