Don’t Hire Based on Resumes
"I have found that hiring a person with a good, positive personality always works out better than hiring a resume. You can teach people new skills, but you can't retrain someone's personality. And a bad apple is like cancer to your organization. We hired a lot of "resumes" (people who had the technical skills we needed) early on, but didn't really focus on personalities. One bad apple that we had the unfortunate experience of hiring, who by the way was a genius technician, ended up being so toxic with the rest of our team, that several good people quit before I realized I had to get rid of the bad apple. Not fun."
—Adam A. Fadhli, president, Discovery Information Technologies
“I have found that hiring a person with a good, positive personality always works out better than hiring a resume. You can teach people new skills, but you can’t retrain someone’s personality. And a bad apple is like cancer to your organization. We hired a lot of “resumes” (people who had the technical skills we needed) early on, but didn’t really focus on personalities. One bad apple that we had the unfortunate experience of hiring, who by the way was a genius technician, ended up being so toxic with the rest of our team, that several good people quit before I realized I had to get rid of the bad apple. Not fun.”
—Adam A. Fadhli, president, Discovery Information Technologies
