25. Trust Your Gut—but Verify It: Balancing Instinct and Structure in Hiring
Description
Most leaders love to say, “I’ll know it when I see it.” But here’s the truth: hiring off your gut alone is not leadership, it’s luck.
In this episode of Hire Power, Kim Frost breaks down the difference between instinctive hiring and intentional hiring. She shares why relying solely on gut feelings or vague phrases like “not a culture fit” can lead to bias, poor decisions, and costly mis-hires, and how the best leaders learn to balance intuition with structure.
Kim pulls from her own corporate experience to show how instinct can both help and hurt your process. You’ll walk away knowing how to spot the difference between valid intuition and untested assumptions—and how to interview with clarity, consistency, and confidence.
In this episode:
- Why “I hire off my gut” isn’t as intuitive as you think
- The problem with using “culture fit” as feedback
- How first impressions can mislead even experienced leaders
- The balance between instinct, structure, and evidence-based hiring
- Why values-based interviewing is the key to better hires
💬 Connect with Kim: linkedin.com/in/frostkim
🌐 Learn more: frostconnections.com
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