Hiring Advice

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

Determine if they have a chip on their shoulder . Do they have something to prove? Where’s the hole they’re looking to fill? Ideally, you’d get someone with obvious talent/drive that is misunderstood by the world. Those types of people will run through walls to reconcile their internal view of themselves with external perception.

What you’re

Tara Seshan • How to Hire Low Experience, High Potential People

Brandy Cerne

How to hire

Sam Altman blog.samaltman.com

Johanna

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.

Tara Seshan • How to Hire Low Experience, High Potential People

Brandy Cerne

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 Wang twitter.com

sari

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Hiring a COO isn’t easy at the early-stage and is wrought with more danger than potential success. Make sure you take the time to understand if you are ready for this hire. When it is done right, the impact on you and the company is tremendous.

Mike Smith

twitter.com

sari

Hire Runner

hirerunner.co

Kat Fergerson

Hire Slow, Fire Fast

Greg McKeown hbr.org

Johanna

Why and how we do work trials at Linear

Zoe Wellner linear.app

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