Choosing Candidates: The Personality Factor
Personality evaluation for offshore candidates is often omitted with explanations such as these:
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Personality is irrelevant. These people are not my employees; why care about their personalities?
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Offshore people are the same as local staff: what’s good for the home team is good for offshore.
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I let my gut decide, because I’m good at reading people and I don’t need any help.
If you subscribe to that school of thought, you’re cruisin’ for a bruisin’. Here’s why.
The importance of a good personality match cannot be overemphasized—just think about how much damage QA engineers can do if they aren’t detail-oriented, or how much “value” project managers bring to the project if they have no appreciation ...
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