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What do hiring and cooking have in common? Mise en place is a French culinary phrase which means "putting in place" or "gather". It refers to the setup required before cooking, and is often used in professional kitchens to refer to organizing and arranging the ingredients. I often take examples from other professions and apply them to hiring principals. PREPARATION is as crucial in hiring as ALIGNMENT is to the successful outcome. It's the mise en place of hiring, if you will. In order to run a great hiring process, you need to make sure you understand the business problem you're solving. You need to know the ideal profile, how you'll run the process and what steps you'll take to ensure success. The same thing happens in a restaurant: the ingredients, where are they sourced, how do they make it there, what goes into the dishes, for how long, when, and what's the presentation, the outcome, the review? If you let your mise-en-place run down, get dirty and disorganized, you'll quickly find yourself spinning in place and calling for backup. - Anthony Bourdain In hiring, the same applies. Hiring isn't hard, but most people tend to overcomplicate it. Ps. If you want to learn more about how we help companies and candidates stay ahead of hiring, follow me, Adam Gellert, for more updates on what we are doing and building for the future of work. Thank you to Shawna Stewart for inspiring this post when discussing preparation being crucial in hiring, and that too many cooks in the kitchen can hurt a process if you're not prepared. #hiring #innovation #careers
