Hiring: Experience & Technical Qualification Vs. Personality and Potential

<p>Guests:</p> <ol> <li>Kemal Brown, Founder &amp; CEO, Digita Global<br> </li> <li>Javette Nixon, Founder &amp; CEO, Point Global Marketing<br> </li> </ol> <p>Welcome to Your Business Matters, a podcast of EXIM Bank Jamaica where we bring thought leaders together on thought-provoking ideas and methods to help grow your business.</p> <p>Hiring new employees can be daunting. As a result, employers usually make it easy on themselves by eliminating candidates with resumes who don't demonstrate a certain level of experience. Personality and interpersonal skills usually come into play at the time of the interview, if at all. When it comes to hiring employees, Business Daily states that much of it comes down to personality, but is that more heavily weighted than the employee’s skills? Many employers state that an employee who possesses both skills and personality is a rare find, one is usually more prominent than the other.</p> <p>Virgin's Richard Branson in a post on LinkedIn stated "personality always wins over book smarts. Company knowledge and job-specific skills can be learned but you can't train a personality. Time and time again I've seen people with a background of broad-ranging employment and skills hired for a job where they don't necessarily tick the specialist criteria boxes, but become incredibly successful by offering a new level of understanding to the role. With this in mind, we focus on hiring people with transferable skills--team players who can pitch in and help others in all sorts of situations. It's important never to underestimate the power of versatility."</p> <p>This week, we are joined by Javette Nixon, founder, and CEO of Point Global Marketing, and Kamal Brown CEO and Founder of Digital Global to dissect the topic ‘Hiring: Experience &amp; Technical Qualification Vs. Personality and Potential’’</p> <p>Some of what we discussed includes:</p> <ol> <li>What is your thought process during the eliminating stage to select your top 5 persons for an interview?<br> </li> <li>Why is personality imp