A naukri.com initiative
The Growth Catalyst
3d
302
Image Credit: The Growth Catalyst
How to Hire a Good PM
- Hiring a PM is a diverse process across orgs, but it broadly follows the steps of skill identification, evaluation, and decision-making.
- The key reason you get mixed bag of PMs is Step 2 — evaluation on different skills.
- The first tactic to improve the usual hiring process is to figure out which interviewers are best suited to evaluate what skill.
- The second tactic is to encourage interviewers to take notes during the interview.
- The third tactic is to ask the same set of questions to all candidates to evaluate their relative strengths, famously called the ‘Israeli Defence Force Recruitment Process’.
- The hard parts of hiring a PM are assignments, bias, making of a good interviewer, the bar raiser, self-awareness, projects, and reference checks.
- To remove bias in the interview process, the interview notes should not be shared amongst the other interviewers.
- The bar raiser approach aims to raise the average level of effectiveness of the group they're entering.
- Reference checks can be valuable if done well, and they should be done across multiple companies where the candidate has worked.
- A good hiring process can help you hire the best candidates whose skills fit your company culture and objectives.
Read Full Article
17 Likes
For uninterrupted reading, download the app