Hiring Advice

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How to hire

Sam Altman blog.samaltman.com

Johanna

We connect expertly vetted talent with world-class clients.

toptal.com

Ted Glasnow

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

Conflict Avoidance is Dishonesty

Sarah Guo linkedin.com

Mo Shafieeha

Hire Slow, Fire Fast

Greg McKeown hbr.org

Johanna

The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing (version 3.0)

Joel Spolsky joelonsoftware.com

Johanna

Have become a huge fan of @mattmochary 's idea of checking your energy level before and after chatting with someone, when deciding whether to work with them. It seems a bit silly when you first hear about it, but over time it's become my #1 most important hiring heuristic.

Flo Crivello twitter.com

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great heuristic for hiring

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

Only hire A-players; people that blow you away. As soon as you allow mediocrity into your team, it will rot your business from the inside forevermore.

charles • Tweet

rob hardy