Hiring Advice

Hiring Advice

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How to Hire Low Experience, High Potential People

Tara Seshan worktopia.substack.com

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Exec Development is a Different Game

Cedric Chin commoncog.com

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What Everybody Should Know About Contracting Developers

Trevor McKendrick trevormckendrick.com

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Decisiveness is Just as Important as Deliberation

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Hire Slow, Fire Fast

Greg McKeown hbr.org

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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

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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.

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Why and how we do work trials at Linear

Zoe Wellner linear.app

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How to build a growth team – lessons from Uber, Hubspot, and others (50 slides) at andrewchen

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