How to recruit the right person for the job?
Rajeshwari Sharma -
Monday, February 25, 2008 5:08 PM
It was one of those chain emails that I was about to delete this morning when I noticed the subject line: How to recruit the right person for the job? As a reporter writing on workplace issues, this mail seemed to have the possibility of a story idea or at least something that could be useful for me. I am still undecided about the usefulness part but some of it surely makes sense even though it’s all said in humor. Human resources professionals can also perhaps take some cue from this. But in case, anyone wants to get a slightly more serious view on how companies in India are trying to align employees with right jobs/roles, can go to the following link:
http://www.livemint.com/Articles/2008/01/13231241/Career-Anchors----What-employ.html
Now, the mail, which made me post this one in the first place…
How to recruit the right person for the job?
Put about 100 bricks in some particular order in a closed room with an open window.
Then send two or three candidates in the room and close the door.
Leave them alone and come back after six 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.