Here’s a great article on hiring.
In startups, hiring is one of the key skills, if not the key skill.
Take two entrepreneurs, with the same idea, the same funding, the same strategy and the same product. The one that can evaluate candidates and build the best team is going to win, by a huge margin.
UPDATED: Fixed link to actually work.
Andy, the link to the ‘article on hiring’ is invalid. Can you give us the link?? Inquiring minds want to read!
Andrew,
unfortunately the link isn’t working :-/
-J
Sorry about the broken link; it should be all working now.
Great article! Actually printed it out and underlined some sections. Guess I’m ancient…
Thanks for the pointer,
David
that IS a great article. thanks
andy, what do you think is better? hiring someone who is experienced and talented but likely already formed in their ways? or hiring raw talent with less or little experience in the hope of having your workplace/culture form them?
i often tilt towards the latter, for the reasons i said, and also because of a hope of more loyalty
The article was excellent. I particularly like the reference call during lunch and using call back response as a gauge of quality. Even better is vetting a candidate via “backdoor” references and bringing them into your trusted network. Official references are alway positive.
The car was a good example of acquiring data on an individual through non verbal means. I have also wondered how good a predictor of cultural affinity a candidates most played list of songs could be.