Human Resources Excercise...
Take the prospective employees you are trying to place and put them in a room with only a table and two chairs. Leave them alone for two hours, without any instruction. At the end of that time, go back and see what they are doing.... If they have taken the table apart, put them in Engineering. If they are counting the butts in the ashtray, assign them to Finance. If they are sleeping, they are Management material. If they tell you it's not as bad as it looks, send them to Marketing. If they mention that hardwood furniture DOES NOT come from rainforests, Public Relations would suit them well. If they mention what a good price we got for the table and chairs, put them into Purchasing. If they don't even look up when you enter the room, assign them to Security. If they are writing up the experience, send them to the Technical Writing team.
Originally published November 14, 2002.
