| | Hiring Committee Decision Information Sheet |
| | The hiring committee in a large office of a global technology consulting firm is considering 5 candidates for an open partner-level position in their office. This new partner will be expected to launch and oversee a new practice area for the firm—social media monitoring. The managing partner hopes that this new practice will bring in at least $25 million in annual revenue within the next 3 years and that offering this new service will also attract at least 6 new Fortune-500 clients within 2 years. Heads of several other practice areas in the office hope that the new practice will also help them attract better-qualified junior hires to the office (ideally improving the average score of incoming candidates on the firm’s selection form by at least 1 point within the first year).
The 6 members of the hiring committee have developed a set of 7 criteria that they consider to be important for selecting the new partner. The tables below contain evaluations of the 5 candidates by each of the 6 hiring committee members as well as ratings of the relative importance of each of the 7 selection criteria by each of the 6 hiring committee members. |
| | Hiring Committee Member #1 Evaluations of Job Candidates |
| | Candidates: | Industry knowledge | Client relationships | New business development | Development of juniors | Brand leadership | Teamwork ability | Comfort with ambiguity |
| | A | 7 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 2 |
| | B | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 3 |
| | C | 3 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 4 |
| | D | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 6 |
| | E | 2 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| | Hiring Committee Member #2 Evaluations of Job Candidates |
| | Candidates: | Industry knowledge | Client relationships | New business development | Development of juniors | Brand leadership | Teamwork ability | Comfort with ambiguity |
| | A | 2 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 4 |
| | B | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 |
| | C | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 6 |
| | D | 3 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| | E | 4 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 3 |
| | Hiring Committee Member #3 Evaluations of Job Candidates |
| | Candidates: | Industry knowledge | Client relationships | New business development | Development of juniors | Brand leadership | Teamwork ability | Comfort with ambiguity |
| | A | 5 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 2 |
| | B | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| | C | 5 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 6 |
| | D | 6 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 5 |
| | E | 5 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 6 |
| | Hiring Committee Member #4 Evaluations of Job Candidates |
| | Candidates: | Industry knowledge | Client relationships | New business development | Development of juniors | Brand leadership | Teamwork ability | Comfort with ambiguity |
| | A | 4 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 4 |
| | B | 4 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 1 |
| | C | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 4 |
| | D | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 |
| | E | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 |
| | Hiring Committee Member #5 Evaluations of Job Candidates |
| | Candidates: | Industry knowledge | Client relationships | New business development | Development of juniors | Brand leadership | Teamwork ability | Comfort with ambiguity |
| | A | 5 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 3 |
| | B | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 5 |
| | C | 7 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 7 |
| | D | 2 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
| | E | 5 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 6 |
| | Hiring Committee Member #6 Evaluations of Job Candidates |
| | Candidates: | Industry knowledge | Client relationships | New business development | Development of juniors | Brand leadership | Teamwork ability | Comfort with ambiguity |
| | A | 4 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 1 |
| | B | 2 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 |
| | C | 7 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 5 |
| | D | 3 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 7 |
| | E | 4 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 4 |
| | Hiring Committee Members Ratings of the Importance of each of the 7 Selection Criteria |
| | Hiring Committee Member: | Industry knowledge | Client relationships | New business development | Development of juniors | Brand leadership | Teamwork ability | Comfort with ambiguity |
| | 1 | 19 | 42 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 17 | 1 |
| | 2 | 5 | 31 | 18 | 3 | 23 | 2 | 18 |
| | 3 | 19 | 25 | 18 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 19 |
| | 4 | 10 | 43 | 19 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 9 |
| | 5 | 7 | 30 | 9 | 21 | 4 | 13 | 16 |
| | 6 | 19 | 28 | 4 | 22 | 17 | 5 | 5 |
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