Truth 38The receptionist test—better than salt?
There's a hiring story that's been around for some time about an IBM executive getting ready to make an offer to a job candidate. But first he took him out to lunch. When the candidate salted his food before tasting it, the executive ruled him out and offered the job to another candidate instead. What was it about the salt? According to the executive's reasoning, the fact that the candidate didn't fully analyze his food before salting it revealed that he probably wouldn't fully analyze a high-stakes business situation before taking action. An urban legend? Perhaps, but it points to the efforts that some take to get a quick behavioral understanding of a potential hire.
Over recent decades, the emergence ...
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