Job interviews involve high levels of stress and organization. Once human resources lined up everyone's busy agendas, all candidates surely strive to impress the hiring committee. These tense meetings restrain you from truly validating fine qualities, addressed to just a partial, internal audience anyway.
Wouldn't you rather examine which qualified applicants get along in a realistic setting? With people you both face constantly: competitors, coworkers and first and foremost … potential customers. Dig into RoyalFlop's refreshing concept of Office Tourneys. Appoint your most powerful team right at the poker tables. Remember closely, everyone's in your subliminal sales force!
Let's say you need one or more positions filled for your department, like reinforcement of your customer service, engineering or marketing team. Perhaps you rather subcontract consultants or substitute project staff.
Instead of going through your usual hiring hassle for each applicant, you simply arrange one event and gather all interested parties together. Host this happening at the office, providing sufficient room for poker tables to seat each participant. That's right, you'll discover your best recruits while playing the most empathetic game of the world.
Poker as such truly embodies life and tournaments represent living in a business world even more; only the top survivors succeed. Grant all players starting chips, symbolizing company money, like their budget, salary or venture capital and observe how they use their assets to deal with yours. Enjoy this first series in Office Tourneys:
10 Reasons to Hire at the Poker Table
1: Meet imminent connections in their natural habitat
2: Authenticate self- and general awareness while learning
3: Determine proper behavior through successes and setbacks
4: Recruit your real ace - the All-round Competent Enthusiast
5: Spot flexibility and limitations while coping with change
6: Sense interpersonal skills: respect, empathy and persuasion
Part 3: Subliminal Salesforce discloses the last 4 reasons
(scheduled for January 2008)
Stake Out Like Mad: Mentality, Awareness and Discipline
Just like a smart job interviewer, you ought to ease your guests first. Speak succinctly about unique attributes of your organization. Reassure poker knowledge is no prerequisite to prevail but akin to business, your soft skills and acumen make the difference to qualify for the job.
1: Meet imminent connections in their natural habitat
Traditionally, only one job candidate at a time sits down at the meeting table with one or two associates. Nice if you connect, but an office poker tourney presents your magic bullet: an inclusive field with both their as your potential colleagues and competitors. They will start elsewhere if they won't get the job, probably at your rival, perhaps as your customer.
2: Authenticate self- and general awareness while learning
Everyone learns. Even if you're adept in your profession, you still need to adapt to particular situations at hand. Recruits face new people, policies and in essence a culture. Playing poker shows exactly how players pick up information. Ramp up newcomers to the game in a brief training by those who consider themselves experienced. Soon you know who's able to explain clearly, absorb knowledge timely and use both wisely.
3: Determine proper behavior through successes and setbacks
Basically, each person acts and thinks differently influenced by two mental states: in comfort or in distress. Surely, you aim to develop and maintain a successful team as a coach would. Although players need distinct qualities for their position, your whole crew must share what's fundamental to business, sports and life at large: discipline.
Poker points out exactly this mastery, regardless of the person's state. Notice if trailing players go on tilt or rather show composure and strive to rebound in style. You ask for a graceful winning mentality surpassing professional conduct. Call it business sportsmanship. Find employees with the right attitude!
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