Hiring Advice
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Hiring Advice
A lot of very smart people work in strange ways / with a lot of quirks (e.g. contemplating for hours and appearing to do nothing, while then suddenly having 100x output burst). This usually makes them not a great fit for traditional corporate world, where you often have to fake…
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Tara Seshan • How to Hire Low Experience, High Potential People
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- How would you describe the candidate to someone who doesn’t know them?
- What is the context in which you know the candidate?
- How many people have you worked with in a similar context? How would you compare the candidate to those other people?
- If this person’s name comes up in your inbox, DMs, or they’re calling you, what do you feel? What do you expect
Yancey Strickler • Notes on hiring
reference checks are a great idea when hiring and this is a great set of questions.
Using the collaborate before you commit approach empowers both the candidate and the person hiring, because they both have the agency to decide whether the situation feels right to them. Was there chemistry? Was there magic? Was it more awkward than you might have liked?
Yancey Strickler • Notes on hiring
