At this point in the course you should be well armed with the tools and knowledge necessary to make better-informed and rational choices. Apply that knowledge as you tackle one of the most important, and yet heavily subjective, of management responsibilities-the hiring process.

Assume you have been tasked with redesigning your organization's hiring processes. Respond to the following:

Select two of the six pitfalls listed below:

• Influenced by initial impressions
• Justifying past decisions
• Seeing what you want to see
• Perpetuating the status quo
• Framing the hiring decision
• Overconfidence

Examine how you might change the process to avoid your selected pitfalls.