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Re: Mentor Recruitment and Quality Control
I just want to support and reinforce what Kathie posted above.
To carry the analogy between a FIRST team and a business one step further: successful businesses recognize that hiring (aka human resources) decisions are the most important ones that they make. A common rule-of-thumb says that hiring the wrong person for a job will have a negative financial impact on the business that is at least three times that person's yearly compensation (pay). So even the smallest businesses consider hiring and promotion decisions very carefully, often involving the president of the company (or of the operating division, in the case of a very large business) in the final decision to hire even one engineer.
The decision to take on any new team member is always important. The decision maker(s) must understand a prospective new member's capabilities, work habits, communication skills, etc. very well before taking the new member onto the team and assigning the new member responsibilities.
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Richard Wallace
Mentor since 2011 for FRC 3620 Average Joes (St. Joseph, Michigan)
Mentor 2002-10 for FRC 931 Perpetual Chaos (St. Louis, Missouri)
 since 2003
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)
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