Hiring Advice

Openness. You are not hiring a finished product, and therefore want to ensure the person is open to improvement and new ideas.

What to look for:
1. Coachability: This trait has two aspects: responding well to feedback, and being self-aware enough to assess their own performance.
2. Disagree and commit: Can they get out of their own ego and move

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

Brandy Cerne

From Product Manager to Product Leader

Substack blog.mindthebeet.com

Tom So

Hire Runner

hirerunner.co

Kat Fergerson

Bonni - Empathy-Driven Team Building

bonni.io

Yufa

Mechanize Your Hiring Process to Make Better Decisions

First Round Capital review.firstround.com

Johanna

If you're the CEO of a fast-growing startup, the mistake you'll make in the next year that you'll regret most will probably be a hiring mistake. Possibly hiring someone established, which you'll feel you should do now you're getting big, and which VCs will strongly encourage.

Paul Graham twitter.com

Johanna

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

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

Brandy Cerne

The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building

Matt Mochary amazon.com

sari

Product Manager Resume Guide by an Ex-Facebook PM

will lawrence productlife.to

Tom So