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We are hiring where I work and the first interviews were run by me. I did whats called blitzkrieg interviewing which is basically non-stop 15-30 min interviews to get as many interviews as possible in a small period of time. In three days I interviewed 40 people. It was tiring, it was long and by the end of the third day I just wanted to sleep for a week. But I had to select 5 for second interviews (myself and two others doing the 2nd interviews), send out rejection letters to the 35 not choosen and 40 others I didn't even interview because they either turned them in too late or the application was horrible. After all that we have it narrowed down to two applicants who are night and day to each other. We decided to go home think about it and decide on Monday.
Here's where I need some opinions, there are three options:
1) Applicant #1 who is the safe bet. She has worked similar positions and is bilingual (big plus in our area). She is very sweet, nice personality, but nothing to really write home about. Bad thing is she doesn't have experiance dealing with problem customers and had a few answers that were a little off. We don't see her going beyond the basic job description but she will do the position well.
2) Applicant #2 is the risk. She has the personailty we want, taught etiquette, has bartended at night clubs for 5 years (so we would assume she can deal with problems and various personailities) and has very little experiance in the position. She is also marginally bilingual. She will go beyond the basic job description and become more then just the position says; which we would love. But she was strong, maybe too strong for some of the others at work to deal with. It was summed up best by my coworker, she will either do very well or very bad there is no in-between.
3) We are only looking for one person. But one of my co-workers pointed out that the problem might not be that either people are wrong but maybe that we see things in both we need at work. So the third option is hire both. We do have a way we could use them both to the best of their abilities and provide the most benefit to the organization but there is the money issue and a current employee would be cut on hours to allow it (although the employee isn't doing her job and has been written up multiple times and might be cut back anyways).
So there are the choices please give me your opinions.
THANKS!
Here's where I need some opinions, there are three options:
1) Applicant #1 who is the safe bet. She has worked similar positions and is bilingual (big plus in our area). She is very sweet, nice personality, but nothing to really write home about. Bad thing is she doesn't have experiance dealing with problem customers and had a few answers that were a little off. We don't see her going beyond the basic job description but she will do the position well.
2) Applicant #2 is the risk. She has the personailty we want, taught etiquette, has bartended at night clubs for 5 years (so we would assume she can deal with problems and various personailities) and has very little experiance in the position. She is also marginally bilingual. She will go beyond the basic job description and become more then just the position says; which we would love. But she was strong, maybe too strong for some of the others at work to deal with. It was summed up best by my coworker, she will either do very well or very bad there is no in-between.
3) We are only looking for one person. But one of my co-workers pointed out that the problem might not be that either people are wrong but maybe that we see things in both we need at work. So the third option is hire both. We do have a way we could use them both to the best of their abilities and provide the most benefit to the organization but there is the money issue and a current employee would be cut on hours to allow it (although the employee isn't doing her job and has been written up multiple times and might be cut back anyways).
So there are the choices please give me your opinions.
THANKS!
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