Skill Level, Social Skills, Or Being Moral?

As an employer, you want to hire the best person for the job. But how do you know what “best” is? Is it skill level? Social skills? Being moral? To me the best person for the job is someone I can trust. Integrity should be the key factor in the hiring process. Someone’s skill level may exceed the requirements, but if they lack integrity, they are not the “best” candidate. You can always train a person to do a job by teaching them the skills needed to accomplish it’s task. But you can not teach integrity. You either have it or you don’t. It’s learned through living life and having someone model it for you. People with integrity treat other’s (employers) stuff better than their own stuff because they know they are accountable for their behavior. Simply put, I’d rather hire someone with integrity and have to train them, than hire someone with skills but lacking in integrity and suffering the fallout later on. Integrity matters, for it has no holiday.

18 As workers who tend a fig tree are allowed to eat the fruit, so workers who protect their employer’s interests will be rewarded. Proverbs 27:18