Hiring Advice

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

The Three-Hour Brand Sprint

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Jordan Bester

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

7 Mental Shifts For Hiring Now

Gigi Levy-Weiss nfx.com

sari

The Mitochondria in Startups

Sarah Tavel sarahtavel.medium.com

Juan Orbea

Creatively - The Job Platform For Creatives

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Sam Blumenthal

Exec Development is a Different Game

Cedric Chin commoncog.com

Mo Shafieeha

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

ssari

great heuristic for hiring

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