Hiring Advice

Openness. You are not hiring a finished product, and therefore want to ensure the person is open to improvement and new ideas.

What to look for:
1. Coachability: This trait has two aspects: responding well to feedback, and being self-aware enough to assess their own performance.
2. Disagree and commit: Can they get out of their own ego and move

Tara Seshan • How to Hire Low Experience, High Potential People

Brandy Cerne

Hire Slow, Fire Fast

Greg McKeown hbr.org

Johanna

We connect expertly vetted talent with world-class clients.

toptal.com

Ted Glasnow

How the Greatest Entrepreneurs Hire (h/t David Senra)

Steve Jobs stated that each new hire became a percentage of the company, so why wouldn’t you take the time to find all A-players?

David Ogilvy, as an already established businessman, would see advertisements that he liked and then cold call the person who made the ad — this is how he sourced his

sari

Here’s Why You’re Not Hiring the Best and the Brightest

Jeff Atwood review.firstround.com

Johanna

Best Practices for Remote Hiring · Remote Hiring

Beth Scheer coda.io

Jedric Viera

Mechanize Your Hiring Process to Make Better Decisions

First Round Capital review.firstround.com

Johanna

here are some posts about online communities that I find very good for one reason or another (Not a full list, no particular order, mostly from the running list we keep at @capiche. screenshots in this thread are their quotes, not my notes) Please add to this... See more

austin petersmith twitter.com

Jordan Bester

Navigate the world on their own terms. The best high potential youth are often unconventional in some ways. And if you’re looking for someone unconventional and high potential, they’ll often have a rationale for their unconventional approach. Ideally they can describe their weird path in an internally coherent way without being egotistical or

Tara Seshan • How to Hire Low Experience, High Potential People

Brandy Cerne