Hiring Advice
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Hiring Advice
- What to look for: This is usually very easy to assess, but look for someone unpretentious and a pleasure to be around.
- What to ask: You know it when you see it.
Tara Seshan • How to Hire Low Experience, High Potential People
The biggest difference in how I’m hiring the second time around:
Indexing heavily on people who really, really want to work at a high growth startup
If a candidate is deciding between us and a comfortable job at a big tech company, it’s already not a fit
Ankur Nagpaltwitter.comThe Cole Group
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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.
An Hour on Early Stage Hiring
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Hiring people is an art, not a science, and resumes can't tell you whether someone will fit into a company's culture.