Why Your HR Department Hires Narcissists
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Your company's HR department is actively designed to hire narcissists. Standard corporate recruitment relies on structured interviews and self-report personality tests. But a grandiose narcissist is a master of impression management. During an interview, their complete lack of humility masquerades as extreme self-confidence.
They dominate the conversation, take sole credit for team successes, and effortlessly provide the ambitious answers the algorithm wants to hear. To HR, they look like visionarily leaders. But to the team they manage, they're a nightmare. They utilise the kiss-up-kick-down dynamic, charming the bosses while ruthlessly abusing the subordinates.
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