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Hiring a highly skilled applicant under his own terms and conditions : Good or bad?

Given that hiring a highly skilled employee will bring positive results for your company's productivity, but up to what extent are you willing to go to in order to hire this applicant? For example if the applicant is applying for a manager role, he has his own terms and conditions like having to choose his own assistant, having his own office, family benefits, etc. Would you still pursue him? Or just stick to your own offer and wait for someone else to accept it.

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Question added by Mike Adrian Obaña , Staff Nurse , Medeor 24x7 Hospital Dubai
Date Posted: 2014/09/07
Bogdan Bucur
by Bogdan Bucur , HR Consultant , Phoenix Business Solutions

in a correct structure nobody is irreplaceable. unless the candidate is the sole character who would provide the desired boost to your business, there is no real point in endorsing his terms and conditions.

Syed Saad
by Syed Saad , Marketing Professional/Executive , F Technologies LLC

This always dependable on management, smart top managements hire the managers on their own terms but ensuring that they abide by the company policies and don’t violate it.

 

If we see this positively, managers are those who brings their own agenda to manage, lead and create strategies to put management objectives in focus. It’s better for organization if someone with ‘brains’ joins the company.

 

On the other hand, it’s a horrifying decision for management that has low experience of running the company, hires a manager who is very much smart that may harm companies for his/her own personal gain. I do not mean every manager would do that but the chances would be higher of company getting into danger.

Saiful Islam Hiron
by Saiful Islam Hiron , Site HR Manager , Handicap International

I think it isa  very bad decision for your organization. It might create a problem for your organization. As HR professional, you are the safegueard of the organization so that follow the organization rules and regulation not individual.

In any work relationship there is always a strong party represented by the recruiter and the weaker party represented by the employee. No employee no matter how skilled he is will be saying to a company i need this or this or this. All he can negotiate about is the salary and expenses paid by the company and insurance coverage. Later maybe after few years he can start to suggest some changes.

But in general it is very bad for a company's reputation to be under the control of an employee. If the rumor spreads around each candidate will be ready to impose his conditions and evetually the company's reputation will be going down and down especially towards its employees who will also feel the need to impose their conditions.

Sheila Kaur
by Sheila Kaur , Owner , Self Employed

To hire high calibre professionals, you got to accept they are different from the rest so let them set their own terms and conditions to get their best, provided you have what it takes to deliver on those terms and conditions in a practical way. Of course, some companies can do this and some cannot so decide what your specific company can honestly uphold.

Its bad‚ because any Time employee will leave

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