Hiring Advice
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Hiring Advice
The #1 thing I look for when hiring people is FIO.
"Figure It Out"
You can get pretty damn far just by being:
- Resourceful
- Reliable
- Results oriented
Tech Sales Guyx.comHave 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 Crivellotwitter.comgreat heuristic for hiring
Hiring Religion
paulenglish.com- 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
good reminder to keep the bar really high.
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
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
Ankur Nagpaltwitter.com