It is not uncommon in human services to make quick and hasty hires. This is largely due to the need for immediate direct service coverage in day and residential services. Given this sutiation that many managers and human service leaders face,we are often driven to rush to hire, thus engagining in compromised decisions that lead to bad and and at times, dangerous hires.
We need to find a balance in bringing in the best people we can to support and serve the people we work for, our clients.I think as a rule, shouldn't worry some much about experience, but more so about values and beliefs. Interview questions should help those who are hiring to determine the quality of the person, and hopefully help us understand what their philospophical view is about people who often live on the margins of our society due to public perception of their differences, rather than their abiltity to be more like the rest of us, than not.
We should try to hire without compromise, given the historically and present low wages we offer and pay, this is a major challenge and at times a moral dilemma.However those we serve deserve the best we can deliver.
Let me here what you have faced through example and your thoughts. We can solve problems and creat new ways together.
JBG
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