Hiring Advice
by sari and · updated 1mo ago
Hiring Advice
- 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?
from Notes on hiring by Yancey Strickler
sari added 1y ago
- Theory for excellence. "Excellence" is a surprisingly generalizable skill. People who've been great at *anything* are more likely to have the drive and self-discipline to excel even at something unrelated. In 2015, we hired a number of ex-Juilliard musicians with no engineering experience with the assumption that “people who know how to be meticul
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Brandy Cerne added 8mo ago
- Find out their wins above replacement. Through the stories they tell, look to see if the end result of the thing they did would have been significantly worse without their involvement. Try to separate their actions from those of their team or the circumstance. This quality should both highlight their talents and their sense of agency and individua
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Brandy Cerne added 8mo ago
- 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
sari added 10mo ago
- High EQ + Persuasion. People who have a clear-headed view of a situation, and the soft skills/influence chops to bend the environment to their will, are especially valuable. It’s an underrated skill.
- What to look for:
- “Game recognize game” – it’s all intuition. It’s the feeling that you’re engaged and enjoying the conversation with the person, b
- What to look for:
from How to Hire Low Experience, High Potential People by Tara Seshan
Brandy Cerne added 8mo ago
- High EQ + Persuasion. People who have a clear-headed view of a situation, and the soft skills/influence chops to bend the environment to their will, are especially valuable. It’s an underrated skill.
- Openness. You are not hiring a finished product, and therefore want to ensure the person is open to improvement and new ideas.
... See more- What to look for:
- Coachability: This trait has two aspects: responding well to feedback, and being self-aware enough to assess their own performance.
- Disagree and commit: Can they get out of their own ego and move forwa
from How to Hire Low Experience, High Potential People by Tara Seshan
Brandy Cerne added 8mo ago
- Openness. You are not hiring a finished product, and therefore want to ensure the person is open to improvement and new ideas.
- 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
from Notes on hiring by Yancey Strickler
sari added 1y ago
reference checks are a great idea when hiring and this is a great set of questions.- People who don’t take themselves too seriously. They have to be able to laugh at themselves to succeed.
- 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.
from How to Hire Low Experience, High Potential People by Tara Seshan
Brandy Cerne added 8mo ago
- People who don’t take themselves too seriously. They have to be able to laugh at themselves to succeed.