Anne Dwane
If you only follow one hiring mantra let it be this: Hire people for the way they approach problems. It follows, if you can only ask a reference one question about a candidate, this should be it.
Content: Quotation | Author: Anne Dwane | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Hiring, Human Resources
Anne Dwane
We all want to hire people who have successfully done what we need. That’s really rare, though. Just because someone has done something before doesn’t mean they can do it again. It’s not a self-fulfilling prophecy. This is where you can say that experience can be overrated.
Content: Quotation | Author: Anne Dwane | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Hiring, Human Resources
Hire a Top Performer Every Time with These Interview Questions
Kristen Hamilton, co-founder and CEO of Koru, has determined that seven characteristics, taken together, best translate into someone killing it at their job. These traits transcend department or career stage, and they apply to entry-level engineers and marketing executives alike. Each of these seven traits is important for just about every hire. As you use them, though, you may find that you weigh them differently … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Kristen Hamilton | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Hiring, Human Resources
Peter Cappelli
We all think we’re geniuses at selecting people and, you know, frankly, one of the problems in hiring is we’ve gotten rid of recruiters in a lot of organizations, we’ve really trimmed them out. So, we let hiring managers do everything by themselves. Hiring managers don’t hire enough people to ever get good at this. We don’t train them, we don’t give them feedback on … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Author: Peter Cappelli | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Hiring, Human Resources
What Top Consulting Firms Get Wrong About Hiring
Each year, around 185,000 MBA students graduate in the U.S. alone. A significant portion of these students spend more than 100 hours each preparing for so-called case interviews — the favored evaluation method of elite consulting firms such as McKinsey, in which candidates are presented with a business problem and asked to talk through how they would solve the problem. This is a colossal waste … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Authors: Atta Tarki, Tino Sanandaji | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Hiring, Human Resources | Industry: Consulting