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The balance between personal and professional effectiveness
Proactivity versus reactivity
The importance of defining your path in life
How to run the hiring process
- Have a written hiring process and ensure everyone has a paper copy of it. Many startups have a random hiring process and hire randomly.
- Do basic skills tests. Ask them basic questions about how to do things in their domain. For a sales rep, have them sell you on your product all the way to a closed deal. For a marketing person, have them whiteboard out a launch for your new product.
- Plan out and write down interview questions.
- Pay attention to the little details during the interview process to show what the person will be like.
- Pay attention to the small things during the reference calls.
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Drive
You can see drive in a candidate's eyes and background.
- Look for what someone has done, not just been involved in or been part of. For example, they started a business in high school. They started and ran a nonprofit in high school.
- If you can't find anything - if the ...
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Fixing hiring mistakes
- Know that while you're going to hate firing someone, you'll feel way better after the fact.
- Realise that the great people on your team will be happy that you've done it as they knew the person wasn't working out. But watch how you fire people, as others will watch how you deal with p...
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Ethics
Unethical people are unethical by nature, and the odds of conversion are quite low. Ministers and priests should give people another chance, not hiring managers at startups.
- One way to test for honesty is to see how they react when they don't know something. They'll either say they do...
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Curiosity
Someone who loves what they do will read about it, study it, talk to other people about it, immerse themselves in it and work like anything to stay current.
Anyone who isn't curious doesn't love what they do. And you should hire people who love what they do.
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Criteria for hiring great people
People will tell you to hire for intelligence, but intelligence is overrated. Other hiring criteria are equally or more important.
- Drive. Self-motivation will cause people to push and push until they succeed.
- Curiosity. Anyo...
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Use the hiring process as your cue
Pay attention to the following points during the remote hiring process.
- Organisation. Is the hiring process disorganised and full of misunderstanding and frustrations, or do they have streamlined systems that show evident respect for your time? ...
The Interview Performance
- Usually, a typical job interview has the employer(s) sit in a room (or a video conference software) and make them answer unstructured questions, gauging their ability to charm them, and appear as the right fit by feeling like ‘one of the gang’. The candidate is selected or rejected base...
The interviewing process gives valuable insight
When job seekers apply for a position, they often have to jump through more hoops to prove themselves than in the past. Many companies demand drawn-out and multiple steps in the interview process that seem like a job in itself.
How a company treats you during the interview process ...
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