Why do pigs have to climb trees?

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"How to get pigs up a tree? ” One boss proposed four options, as follows: Option 1: Give the pig a nice vision, telling it that you are a monkey – in other words, just promise something without delivering it ； Option 2: Cut down the tree and have the pigs lie on it for a photo, commonly known as a fake version ； Option 3: Tell him that if he can’t make it, there will be a whole pig feast in the evening, simply called a performance bonus. Option 4: Have pigs wear Li Ning – anything is possible ； Let pigs wear Xtep – go beyond the ordinary. This has a somewhat sarcastic or mocking tone, and many bosses consider it unprofessional! So another boss came up with an alternative plan, as follows: 1. Help the pigs lose weight so that they meet the basic standards ； 2. Put horseshoes on the pig’s four feet; this is a tool for it ； 3. First, find a tree that grows at an angle for it to climb up; this is a gradual approach, moving from easy to harder tasks ； 4. Find out what pigs like to eat; this is key to understanding personal goals ； 5. Place a small amount of food along the trunk; this serves to motivate the decomposition process and its progression ； 6. If the pig still cannot climb up, it is necessary to analyze the issue and make improvements; this is part of the evaluation process for improvement ； 7. Reward upon climbing up. Haha, this major! Stop! Stop! Stop! There are 2 questions: 1. Can pigs really climb trees? 2. To find an animal that can climb a tree, why must it be a pig? Why not monkeys? What a phrase that awakens those in a dream! It turns out that, going back to the basics, no matter what methods we use, pigs simply cannot climb trees! All the ideas we’ve thought of are futile! What comes to mind when you see this joke? Conclusion: Hiring the wrong person means that no amount of training will help! This is a mistake that many HR professionals and managers make frequently during the recruitment process: due to the difficulty in finding employees, many companies \"are forced\" to lower their requirements, believing that training can help employees meet those standards! Why is it wrong? 1. If what a job seeker lacks is merely skills, that’s not a big problem, as these can be improved relatively easily through training. But for a company, it has to bear the training costs, and due to the failure to meet standards in the initial stage, the company also has to incur opportunity costs and time costs as a result; the training costs are often extremely high! 2. Personal traits cannot be addressed through training, basically. For example, it’s completely absurd to insist on hiring someone who is not sensitive to numbers and careless to work as an accountant! The principle in this matter is: it’s better to miss a thousand than to make one mistake! The reasons are: 1. It has delayed the professional development of this employee themselves ； 2. Weakening of team strength ； 3. Introduces factors of unreliability in work processes ； 4. It causes displeasure for both parties ； 5. Increase the firm’s sunk costs. Therefore, if a person is not competent for a position, or is competent at present but lacks the potential for further development in the future, it is detrimental to both the individual and others. Regarding the cost of choosing the wrong person, the calculation model should be as follows: 1. Direct costs: newspaper and internet advertising, fees for job fairs or headhunters, time spent screening resumes, testing, interview time, onboarding training, training ； 2. Indirect costs: the cost of lost productivity, the cost of making mistakes by dismissing employees, loss of credibility of functions, low morale and productivity among subordinates, and potential lawsuits brought by the dismissed employees. We have calculated this before, and the conclusion was that hiring the wrong person costs a company 15 times the amount of the salary! In other words: assuming this person earns an annual salary of 100,000, the cost to the company is 1.5 million! Going back to the joke from earlier, if you want an animal to climb a tree, why not just hire a monkey? Why go to such great lengths to raise a pig? It’s impossible and not cost-effective either!