Column: Cultural Fits and Starts
My first column for the Fast Company/Inc. Hiring Center is up. See Cultural Fits and Starts. I don’t see a way to leave comments there, so please do leave comments here.
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Hiring the Top 1%
Joel has a great essay on how you’re probably not hiring the top 1% — even though you think you are.But here’s what Joel didn’t say: not everyone wants to hire the top 1%. I’ve worked with managers who only wanted to hire people who weren’t as capable as they were. (They didn’t understand why
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A Hiring Joke
True confessions: I can’t tell jokes. I can do knock-knock jokes, but that’s about it. I received this in email today. With any luck I won’t spoil it 🙂 Want to hire only lucky people? Take your stack of resumes. Divide them in half. Throw one half away — those are the unlucky people. I
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Lessons Learned From a Recent Column
I was surprised by the comments I received on my Stickyminds article last week. Then I read Brian Marick’s insightful Tester who can script and I may have the words to describe my surprise and concerns. I was surprised by the people who commented that they were looking primarily for personality fit and cultural fit.
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Phone Screen Article up at Stickyminds
My column, Detecting Great Testers before the In-person Interview is up. Leave comments here or there.
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When is Time to Add Another Person?
I thought that most of my readers were inside large-ish organizations, where they had people to worry about the budget for them. But it appears that some of you are owners of or work for smaller (generally consulting) organizations, where you (lucky you!) make the decision about when to hire another person. There are two
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Interview Posted at IT Conversations
When I was in Israel earlier this month, Roy Osherove interviewed me. The interview is hosted at IT Conversations. Roy asked questions about why I wrote the hiring book, and what people would get out of it. We also spoke about managing projects and managing people, including the biggest mistake I ever made as a
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Graphology is Not Useful
In Handwriting and Your Job Search, Maya refers to It’s All in the Handwriting. Maya, you’ve been had. I wrote about this on the Bostonworks HR blog, see Debunking Graphology.Graphologists (if you can even honor them with a scientific-sounding name) are selling snake oil. I bet your handwriting looks a lot like your mother’s, or
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Q&A Piece in Computerworld and Comments
Kathy Melymuka wrote up a Q&A with me in Hiring Nerds: Author lays out practical strategies for staffing up IT. And Beth Nobscot has a comment in Tips for Hiring Nerds. Beth has a number of articles on her site. I particularly liked Hire Employees That Seek Opportunity Not Pay.
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Hiring Mistake #3: Ignoring Cultural Fit Issues
The third biggest hiring mistake I see is when hiring managers don’t consider cultural fit issues with candidates. I don’t mean small/large company, although that’s a common question hiring managers ask. Here are more cultural fit issues: The personality diversity of the team. If you have a team of introverts (not uncommon), think about that