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Why Should Hire Someone?

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6. When deciding to hire someone, Danny asks his managers to answer one question “do you believe the candidate has the capacity to become one of the top three performers on the team in their job area”. He talks about a “whelming” candidate, being a candidate you avoid at all cost. What is it? What is your opinion of the statement? What is your opinion of the “whelming” candidate? Why? I agree with Danny’s philosophy to only hire people that he sees being one of the top three workers in their role. If they cannot even rise to be part of the top three at any point in their career there, what is the point in even hiring them? Why hire a worker that you feel is at best mediocre? Workers should be hired when the expectation for their performance exceeds that of all other workers in the company. Danny also talks about the concept of a “whelming” candidate. See, with an overwhelmingly qualified candidate you know that they will excel at their job and will do great things in their role. With an underwhelmingly qualified candidate they will either quit or be fired for underperforming. The issue with a “whelming” candidate is that they are completely average. They won’t go on to excel in their role, they won’t do great things, but they also avoid underperforming to the point of demoting or firing them. They are simply dead weight, and the biggest problem is they are often only uncovered by the time they have been working in their position for quite a while already. 7. In

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