Hiring Advice

1. 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.
   
   
   1. What to look for:
      
      

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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

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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?

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

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