Today's advice comes from Joel Peterson, chairman of JetBlue
Airways, via LinkedIn:  "Your best people are an invaluable
resource in deciding who to add to the team. They’ll be able to
see subtle things about a candidate that you missed, personality
traits that you didn’t register, and technical strengths or
weaknesses that you don’t understand. They’ll be able to give
you a collective gut read on whether the person would fit on the
team, and they’ll have ideas for how to define the candidate’s
position and responsibilities."  Peterson says that inviting
your team into the hiring process will send a signal of trust,
and will show your team that you trust their judgment. When
actually sending team members to interview, you should come up
with a plan that capitalizes on their strengths. For example,
have an engineer interview for technical skills, or a
communicator interview for people skills.   "If the team feels
excluded from the hiring process, they may feel like you don’t
have confidence in their opinions.