Comments on: Interviewing — Hire or No Hire http://www.earnedlessons.com/2009/03/13/interviewing-hire-or-no-hire/ Customer Joy. Employee Success. Investor Wealth. Thu, 27 May 2010 16:46:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Mark http://www.earnedlessons.com/2009/03/13/interviewing-hire-or-no-hire/comment-page-1/#comment-31 Mark Wed, 20 May 2009 20:09:07 +0000 http://www.earnedlessons.com/?p=175#comment-31 Ruben, thanks for the interviewing tips. These are quite helpful. Do you have any specific advice for finding co-founders or early employees? Ruben, thanks for the interviewing tips. These are quite helpful.

Do you have any specific advice for finding co-founders or early employees?

]]> By: Yu-Shan http://www.earnedlessons.com/2009/03/13/interviewing-hire-or-no-hire/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Yu-Shan Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:08:40 +0000 http://www.earnedlessons.com/?p=175#comment-13 Great post once again! I really like the point about consensus -- that given it's a consensus hire, nobody in the loop has any reason but to want the new hire to be successful, and will go out of their way to make it so. The opposite could be disastrous. Also, to push the last point further, do you think it should be required that at least one of the interviewer be willing to step up and be a champion for the candidate? This would presumably push the interviewers to try to decide there is really something special about this person, on top of just being "good enough"? Great post once again! I really like the point about consensus — that given it’s a consensus hire, nobody in the loop has any reason but to want the new hire to be successful, and will go out of their way to make it so. The opposite could be disastrous. Also, to push the last point further, do you think it should be required that at least one of the interviewer be willing to step up and be a champion for the candidate? This would presumably push the interviewers to try to decide there is really something special about this person, on top of just being “good enough”?

]]> By: Jro http://www.earnedlessons.com/2009/03/13/interviewing-hire-or-no-hire/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Jro Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:29:07 +0000 http://www.earnedlessons.com/?p=175#comment-12 While I agree from a general perspective, my results with this strategy are mixed. In those cases where I've seen a less-than-stellar outcome, hindsight review led me to conclude that variances in job duties between the interviewers and the candidate were a factor. Like-kind positions, we had much greater success. While I agree from a general perspective, my results with this strategy are mixed. In those cases where I’ve seen a less-than-stellar outcome, hindsight review led me to conclude that variances in job duties between the interviewers and the candidate were a factor. Like-kind positions, we had much greater success.

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