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What does it mean to Hire for Fit?
Would you build a long-term personal relationship or marry someone based on their knowledge and skills? Of course not! But that is what most senior managers do when they hire a new employee. What is more important is to find people that have the right fit … this is the single greatest factor for building successful long-term relationships, including long-term successful employment relationships.
So what is fit? In the simplest of terms … it is the innate characteristics that make-up the personality of the parties involved. Whether the parties are husband-wife, boyfriend-girlfriend or employer-employee, it requires that the innate characteristics or personalities, of the parties involved, ‘fit’ together.
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