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Jeff Bezos doesn't give a sh*t about your resume.
Instead, he built his $2.06 trillion empire on 3 simple hiring questions.
He's used these 3 questions over & over to identify world-class talent who'd eventually become millionaires.
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Peter Thiel recruited Reid Hoffman, Chad Hurley, Sam Altman, David Sacks, and Keith Rabois. Also partnered with Elon Musk.
He's used these 4 questions time and time again to identify 20-year-olds who would go on to be billionaires.
Test yourself with these questions: https://t.co/z3dUHFcuPQ
A Good Approach: Ask About the Past
So in the framework of good, better, best, what counts as “good”? We can ask, “What have you done in the past?” If you’re trying to understand what someone would pay for something, ask them if they pay for something like that today. If I’m going to do a new streaming entertainment service, I can ask you, “What... See more
So in the framework of good, better, best, what counts as “good”? We can ask, “What have you done in the past?” If you’re trying to understand what someone would pay for something, ask them if they pay for something like that today. If I’m going to do a new streaming entertainment service, I can ask you, “What... See more
Ask Teresa: How Can You Test a Customer’s Willingness to Pay? - Product Talk
To fairly and evenly weed out candidates — and protect your employees’ time — Gupta also recommends assigning a take-home coding test between phone screen one and phone screen two.“This assignment should be a trivial coding problem,” he says. In the past, he’s assigned something that would take a moderately skilled coder 10 minutes to finish.... See more
First Round Capital • Mechanize Your Hiring Process to Make Better Decisions
It’s important to note that this process doesn’t rely on résumés or traditional interviews, which only really test for how well the candidate writes a résumé and performs in an interview. If you look for past performance and evaluate a candidate’s work firsthand, you’ll make much better hires.
Josh Kaufman • The Personal MBA: A World-Class Business Education in a Single Volume
EVALUABILITY. When we compare products, features that are quantifiable become easy to evaluate, and even if they are not truly important they nevertheless come into sharper focus, which makes it easier for us to evaluate our options in terms of those features.
Dan Ariely • Dollars and Sense
Because different students' grades on any given test or paper are not directly comparable.