Selecting Managers

Near the end of a search for a manager, you usually have three or four finalist candidates. Each one of them can do the job well. Which candidate will do the job outstandingly - as opposed to just well?

Helping you answer that question is the main purpose of this future book.

The book gives you my tool, QualGraph^TM, developed during 29 years of headhunting. With that tool, you can weigh the strengths and shortcomings of each candidate in relation to the requirements of the open position. QualGraph helps clarify to yourself and others the personal and professional qualities, skills, knowledge and habits required for the open position and how each candidate fits those requirements. The tool will show clearly on what basis you have selected the outstanding manager.

QualGraph can also be used for performance reviews of current key employees, and for revealing shortcomings in skills, capabilities or habits of whole teams.

Small parts of the book will comment on peripheral matters such as:

• Pitfalls in comparison of candidates, and in interviewing candidates.
• Where and how to hunt for outside candidates
• Considerations for and against using outside headhunters
• Which personality types are most suitable for which kinds of jobs
• The special importance of honesty and reliability
• Eliciting revealing references
• Understanding compound qualities through evaluating each one of their elementary parts. For example: you can get a grasp of a person’s communication ability through evaluating and weighing each one of his/her speaking, writing, listening and motivating abilities and habits. These skills and habits are then considered in relation to the candidate’s personal honesty, empathy and humor to get an overview of his/her communication ability.

In case the above is of interest to you, or if you have suggestions for inclusion of additional ideas, please tell me now.

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