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Story: IT hiring strategies: Finding the right person for the job

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Can you give him a grammatical error checker? Or maybe less work, so he doesn't have to skip proofreading. HEY! Better yet, an assistant.

Excerpt from: http://insight.zdnet.co.uk/business/management/0,39020490,39273637,00.htm

When it comes hiring the right person, you have to look at skills and personality, though not necessarily in that order. Knowing the skills your ideal candidate should possess is the first step to hiring success. Here's my recipe for finding the right person.

Define what you want
Your first step in the hiring process is to create a list of skills that your idea candidate would posses, along with a rating for each skill. This list will come in handy when you get to the technical portion of the interview process.

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