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<blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 8035194" data-attributes="member: 5948"><p>Yep. As i said, it can be a double-edged sword. Problem with this sort of 'best personality fit' argument is that it's so broad and fuzzy. There needs to be a level of analysis involved. If someone on a hiring board chooses candidate A on the 'best fit' argument, then there needs to be further detail than that. Exactly what aspects of the workplace culture does the losing candidate not fit with? And are those aspects desirable? There are certainly valid personality-fit reasons to prefer one candidate over another, but they need to be articulated as you've done, otherwise your company is at the mercy of the prejudices (conscious or otherwise) of whoever it is you've got making the hiring decisions. And those prejudices can range from "wow, she's hot, i bet she'd be a good cultural fit IN MY PANTS hurr hurr" to "we're the sort of company where everyone is vegan and does yoga - someone who likes hip-hop, wears loud colours, and eats bbq isn't going to be comfortable here", both of which have obvious landmines. I'm in a technical field - in my sort of job it's senior technical people who give the ultimate thumbs up/down which is then generally ticked off by management unless there's a REALLY good reason, because management understandably believe that tech people can evaluate tech skills best. I suspect for WotC hiring creative staff it's senior creatives or creative project managers making these calls. But the thing about workplace culture - the people in these senior roles are the result of your workplace culture. If your culture has flaws, or blind spots, or prejudices, then your seniors are going to carry those into their hiring meetings. 'Best fit with the culture' is a very broad statement that can cover a multitude of sins, best to break it down and detail it more.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>This is also true, but in the specific case we're talking about (WotC and Orion Black) we have a company that has in the recent past talked a great deal about consciously wanting to be more inclusive and include more diverse creative views in future, after not being great at this in the past. In that context, if their hiring/firing decisions, or what goes on from day to day in the operation of their creative department, are based on the assumption that the 'best fit' is the candidate that best fits the CURRENT culture and narrative assumptions, then that's more than a bit of a problem.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Well, i could certainly debate whether 'banned by the US supreme court' is the same thing as 'bad', but of course at the end of the day WotC is a US company and has to abide by US law.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="humble minion, post: 8035194, member: 5948"] Yep. As i said, it can be a double-edged sword. Problem with this sort of 'best personality fit' argument is that it's so broad and fuzzy. There needs to be a level of analysis involved. If someone on a hiring board chooses candidate A on the 'best fit' argument, then there needs to be further detail than that. Exactly what aspects of the workplace culture does the losing candidate not fit with? And are those aspects desirable? There are certainly valid personality-fit reasons to prefer one candidate over another, but they need to be articulated as you've done, otherwise your company is at the mercy of the prejudices (conscious or otherwise) of whoever it is you've got making the hiring decisions. And those prejudices can range from "wow, she's hot, i bet she'd be a good cultural fit IN MY PANTS hurr hurr" to "we're the sort of company where everyone is vegan and does yoga - someone who likes hip-hop, wears loud colours, and eats bbq isn't going to be comfortable here", both of which have obvious landmines. I'm in a technical field - in my sort of job it's senior technical people who give the ultimate thumbs up/down which is then generally ticked off by management unless there's a REALLY good reason, because management understandably believe that tech people can evaluate tech skills best. I suspect for WotC hiring creative staff it's senior creatives or creative project managers making these calls. But the thing about workplace culture - the people in these senior roles are the result of your workplace culture. If your culture has flaws, or blind spots, or prejudices, then your seniors are going to carry those into their hiring meetings. 'Best fit with the culture' is a very broad statement that can cover a multitude of sins, best to break it down and detail it more. This is also true, but in the specific case we're talking about (WotC and Orion Black) we have a company that has in the recent past talked a great deal about consciously wanting to be more inclusive and include more diverse creative views in future, after not being great at this in the past. In that context, if their hiring/firing decisions, or what goes on from day to day in the operation of their creative department, are based on the assumption that the 'best fit' is the candidate that best fits the CURRENT culture and narrative assumptions, then that's more than a bit of a problem. Well, i could certainly debate whether 'banned by the US supreme court' is the same thing as 'bad', but of course at the end of the day WotC is a US company and has to abide by US law. [/QUOTE]
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