At a small firm hiring an external Director. One strong candidate has a lot of stories which seem too good to be true, mostly with clients he cannot name directly. How might we go about verifying these stories? If they are indeed true, we’d be incredibly excited to hire this person.

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See if he can provide references that can corroborate the stories?

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If it seems too good to be true, it usually is.

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^ that’s the winner

Even if they cannot name the client, they should be able to provide references from within the firm. If this person doesn’t want the firm to know that they are considering leaving, ask for a peer they trust. There must be someone that worked on the project with them.

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Why is this a concern? If he is able to sell you the stories, he can sell them to the clients. Everything in consulting is based on such a capability. Unless your concern is his technical capability or that he is fraudulent with his background, I wouldn't worry too much

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Case study.

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You have to take a risk and give the person 18 months to walk the talk. You can’t be small and scared, the big boys will eat you for breakfast.

What you need to be sure of, is IF the person doesn’t fire, can you help him/her course correct? If the answer is yes, go for it!

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McK has Personal Experience Interview. I liked the approach, even as a candidate and I sucked at it. The way to examine a candidate is to pickup a situation (time when had to coach an executive without being harsh, etc) where the stories mentioned can be applied. If the stories are true , the candidate can easily answer cross examination.

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This is really interesting. Can you give an example of how this might work in practice?

Is that your only skepticism? If there's more to it maybe just trust your gut.

Elon Musk dives really deep on one story to figure out if the person really did it.

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