What's Your Sign?

Gautam Ghosh points to a story about a company that uses a person's horoscope as part of their criteria for selection. The comments are interesting.

What do you think?

In the U.S., this would be illegal unless you could convince a judge that knowing one's sign is a legitimate thing to ask and job related (not likely).

It's funny, but not surprising. Different groups, religions, countries, and individuals see meaning in different indicators. I guess one could argue (I'm not arguing this) that our horoscope is a little like a behavioral style.

Finding the right person for a job is a BIG deal and not at all straight forward. That's for sure. No matter how logical we try to be, we need a bit of magic in our process to get it right. Why? Because human beings are magical.

Comments

[Valeria Maltoni]

Funny coincidence, I just blogged about that and linked to your site as one of the 'must reads' in 2007. Happy New Year!

http://conversationagent.typepad.com/conversation_agent/2006/12/how_many_blogge.html

[Lisa Haneberg]

Valaria - how funny. I'm an Aries and I do tend to blow out bulbs......hmmm...maybe there's something to this criteria :-)

Thanks so much for the recommendation!