Hiring Advice
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Hiring Advice
- 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
Tara Seshan • How to Hire Low Experience, High Potential People
0/ The Chief of Staff role has reached a tipping point, from startups to trillion-dollar companies. I've talked to ~100 CEOs, from @NotionHQ, @Patreon, @blendlabsinc, @benchling and more, all asking same q:
How should I hire a chief of staff?
Here's what I tell them 🧵
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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
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Much of Silicon Valley is the reshuffling of uninspired, unremarkable individuals with one Great Brand on their resume, being recycled through tens of other Aspiring Great Brands.
Do not outsource your talent evaluation to Brand identification, otherwise your company will suck.
Alexandr Wangtwitter.com- 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.