Natural Selection in Employment

Trying to figure out which person is the right person for the job?

Put 400 bricks in a closed room. Put your new hires in the room and close the door. Leave them alone and come back after 6 hours. Then analyze the situation.

• If they are counting the bricks, put them in the accounting department.
• If they are recounting them, put them in auditing.
• If they have messed up the whole place with the bricks, put them in engineering.
• If they are arranging the bricks in some strange order, put them in planning.
• If they are throwing the bricks at each other, put them in operations.
• If they are sleeping, put them in security.
• If they have broken the bricks in to pieces, put them in information technology.
• If they are sitting idle, put them in human resources.
• If they say they have tried arranging the bricks in to different combinations or they’re looking for more, yet no bricks have been moved, put them in sales.
• If the room is empty because they had to leave for the day, put them in marketing.
• If they are staring out of the window, put them in strategic planning.
• If they are talking to one another and no bricks have been moved, congratulate them and put them in top management.
• If they have surrounded themselves with bricks in such a way that they can’t be seen or heard from, put them in Congress.