{"id":492,"date":"2015-03-05T01:00:27","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T06:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/?p=492"},"modified":"2026-04-01T16:21:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T16:21:24","slug":"hire-a-great-track-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/2015\/03\/05\/hire-a-great-track-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Hire a Great Track Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You want to hire people who have <em>proven<\/em> themselves:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Proven their <em>value<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Proven their <em>faithfulness<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Proven their <em>trustworthiness<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If they don&#8217;t have a great\u00a0track record, don&#8217;t hire them because <strong>the best indicator of future performance is past performance.<\/strong> When looking to hire someone (or promote someone you&#8217;ve already hired) you want to evaluate <em>past performance<\/em>. If they haven&#8217;t been a good volunteer, <em>paying<\/em> <em>them<\/em> won&#8217;t turn them into a good employee. If they haven&#8217;t been faithful with their current responsibilities, don&#8217;t promote them by giving them more. Jesus taught in Luke 16:10 that only those who have been faithful with little should be entrusted with much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You want to hire people who have proven themselves: Proven their value Proven their faithfulness Proven their trustworthiness If they don&#8217;t have a great\u00a0track record, don&#8217;t hire them because the best indicator of future performance is past performance. When looking to hire someone (or promote someone you&#8217;ve already hired) you want to evaluate past performance. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-492","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-staff","7":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Mike","author_link":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/author\/mike\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1281,"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions\/1281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}