Disadvantages of strength based selection

1) If you are hiring candidate for a particular strength than your talent pool will be very
limited and he will be confined in that particular area.
2) Promoting that candidate for leadership role will incur more cost in training and
development and there are high chances that he wont be able to take up leadership
role.
3) Performance appraisal of the candidates who were hired for a particular strength will
be difficult. All such candidates will excel in certain strengths and lack in other
strength.
4) Candidates hired through this process would lack versatility. People love to remain in
their comfort zone.
5) Decision making ability will be also very narrow.
6) The biggest problem is strength is always relative not absolute.
7) You hired someone for a particular strength i.e. courage but in certain cases when it is
overly used it might be treated as reckless boldness which is a weakness, so sometime
strength may prove fatal.