Michelle Clark Ph. D
416 Douglas Avenue, Suite 205
Ames, IA 50010
515-296-0125
michelle@michelleclarkphd.com

Learned Intuition in Hiring

How many times have you hired the wrong person and after the fact recalled a small nagging question you’d had about that person but ignored? In his book, The Gift of Fear, Gavin de Becker, consultant to CIA and one of America’s leading experts in predicting violent behavior, states that to avoid danger “we must listen to internal warnings while they are still whispers.” The same is true in a hiring process. Our hiring processes are designed to be logical, rational, and fact-based, but our very drive for excellent decisions often creates an environment where the “whispers of our intuition” have no place.

The purpose of this session is to assist organizations to create a hiring culture of “learned intuition” where fact-based, logical hiring processes are intentionally balanced with the subtle perceptiveness of the staff involved.

Goals for this session:

• Learn how to identify the subtle cues, internal red flags, and hunches that are signs of deeper and relevant perceptions about job candidates.
• Learn how to create systems and structures in your hiring process to intentionally elicit and utilize unspoken staff perceptions of candidates.
• Learn to use guided questions to turn intuition into direct behavioral observations, thus contributing to a logical and fact-based hiring process.