Think of your career and all the people you’ve mis-hired because they had hyped their resume and faked their interviews. If all candidates had told you the whole truth, you know that costly mis-hires would have been avoided. Fortunately, the Topgrading “truth serum” is close to a “magic bullet.” The simplest, most powerful Topgrading tool …
You can avoid costly mis-hires by alerting candidates that they must arrange reference calls with former managers…and as a final step in hiring, ask them to arrange those calls and then make those calls. As the founder of Topgrading, I have used this powerful “truth serum” to motivate almost 7,000 candidates I’ve interviewed to tell …
Summary: If you had a 100% foolproof method of hiring, it could fail miserably if you did not have enough candidates to pick from. Topgrading IS the most proven and effective hiring method BUT … unless you have at least 30 and preferably 50 candidates to choose from, even Topgrading will probably not produce an …
Click here to see an article quoting me (and mentioning two Topgrading companies) on the subject of ranking employees and firing the bottom X%. In the 3rd Edition of Topgrading I devote four pages to explaining that GE does NOT fire a predetermined percentage, despite what Jack Welch seems to imply!