Hire those who want to be in the organization and who identify with its values and goals. Hire those who are driven and want to deliver results. Hire those who will put their ego aside for the good of the team.
Recruitment
Stop Hiring For Cultural Fit, Do This Instead
Instead of hiring those similar to you, hire those whose values align with the company’s values, regardless of their cultural and educational background and lifestyle choices. When values drive your interview process, you still hire the right people, but they won’t be all the same.
How To Hire A More Diverse Team
To build more diversity into the organization, design the recruitment process in a way that mitigates unconscious biases. You will create a more equitable hiring practice, give everyone a fair chance, and ultimately build a more diverse organization.
Diversity And Your Broken Recruitment Process
Focusing on diversity can significantly improve your success in the job market by expanding the talent pool available to you. Be more open-minded and inclusive and you will find many great candidates who will do a fantastic job once they get a chance.
Why To Recruit From Within
The economy is doing great. Most of the countries have record low unemployment rates. Companies fight over the best and the brightest. As I described in How To Win The War For Talent, there is only one way to win… Read More ›
How To Win The War For Talent
The war for talent is a term first used by Steven Hankin of McKinsey & Company in 1997. It refers to a competitive landscape of today’s economy when companies fight to recruit and retain the best employees. When introduced it… Read More ›
Why Leaders Should Hire Their Opposites
A lot was written about the need of hiring people that will support the culture you are trying to build. So called cultural fit. And a lot was written about inclusion and diversity with the idea being that the more… Read More ›
How To Hire A Strong Software Development Team
Building a strong team is a prerequisite to shipping successful, innovative and good quality products that customers love. But how do you build a software development team capable of doing it? You build it lean and mean. In How To… Read More ›
How To Build A Team And Not A Random Group Of People
Building a strong team to get things done is one of the key responsibilities of every manager. And curiously enough, very few are actually doing it. I encourage you to look around, and even consider how you build your teams,… Read More ›
How To Hire A Winning Team
Lean and mean. That’s how you could describe a winning team that is passionate about the work and has the skills and attitude to get things done. Specifically in software development you are looking at a team that will be… Read More ›
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