Companies Hire for Skills, not Attitude
I am more convinced than ever that there are people with good attitudes looking for employment opportunities. I am just as convinced that companies looking for employees consider attitude to be unimportant, simply a phrase on their job application form. If this is not the case, there must be some real flaws in the attitude-screening process.
How much time are companies taking to screen potential employees’ attitudes? My answer has got to be “not enough.” I hope that most applicants are smart enough to answer the “attitude” questions correctly. I also would hope that they have enough sense to provide only references who will say nice things about them. The only way to assess someone’s attitude is to spend ...
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