updated 9mo ago
Hiring Humans, Not Resources
- Hiring people is an art, not a science, and resumes can't tell you whether someone will fit into a company's culture.
from Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time by Howard Schultz
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- Never hire people for “cultural fit.” What a pernicious term. Instead, hire insanely talented people for their “cultural contribution.” For how unique they are. For why they are different from you. For what they will add that you do not have.
from 101 Design Rules by Brian Collins
sari added
- The more I’ve done it, the more I realize that what most people think of as the hard parts of hiring—asking just the right question that catches the candidate off guard, defining the role correctly, assessing the person’s skills—are less important than a more basic task: how do you see someone, including yourself, clearly?
from What's Going on Here, With This Human? - Graham Duncan Blog by grahamduncan.blog