A while back I wrote a blog post entitled 8 top reasons for hiring a loser based on some of my less successful hiring experiences, and I have written about the difficulty of that first sales hire in Hiring Sales Person #1 – Money down the Plughole?.
Today’s Friday link is a to post that made me cringe as I read it – because it is all too familiar. How to Hire and Idiot describes exactly what can happen when you take on people whose skills are way outside your own comfort zone. A cautionary tale, but I hope a useful and interesting one!
