Tag: Hiring Best Practices

Leadership

Should your Next Hire be Cultural Fit or Culturally Aligned

This was the topic of my recent conversation with Yuvan Gupta on our podcast – Culturally Speaking! Here are some of the key ideas we covered: Whatā€™s the Problem with ā€œCultural Fitā€? Some companies say they want people who are a ā€œculture fit.ā€ What they often mean is:ā€¢ā  ā Someone who will settle in quicklyā€¢ā  ā Someone like everyone else in the teamā€¢ā  ā And so can feel right at home and hence ā€œhit the ground runningā€ But this can lead to hiring people who all think the same way, which creates echo chambersā€”places where only similar ideas are shared, and new thinking […]

Leadership

Leaders Worth Following Never Leave Hiring Just to HR

One of the primary responsibilities of a Leader is to hire the right people for the right roles for their teams. It is such an important activity that it can’t be left to either the HR business partners or anyone else. One of the things we can do if we really want to become a Leader worth following is to always be recruiting or looking for people we can hire to be on our team. Apart from a host of other benefits that this has, it also has the added advantage of creating a pool of candidates for us to […]

1000Entrepreneurs, Ideas, Leadership

Hiring Anyone Who Applies for a Job

As part of my reading list, I stumbled on to a post that talks about a bakery that gives a job to anyone who applies – no interview, no background checks, no drug tests, nothing. You enrol on a list and whenever an opening arises, the person at the top of the list is offered that job. Simple. They start as an apprentice for a 10 month period, post which they get an entry level job at the bakery. They practice Open Hiring.Ā  This made me think. {I know ?}. I can already think of a 100 different reasons that […]

Entrepreneurship

Hiring – Whose Job is It Anyway?

Oh No, not another interview šŸ™ This is how I felt when I was asked to attend my 4th interview for a customer service role at Saint Gobain Glass more than a decade back. I had already gone through a series of aptitude tests and 3 rounds of interview. Finally, when I thought that I had the job nailed, I got this request asking me to visit their office for another interview and this one will be conducted by the MD himself. During the entire interview, I felt as if i was being evaluated for my character and judgement. To […]

Leadership

3 Things That I Look for When Hiring

We all end up in a situation when we are required to hire someone. It might be to grow your business or to replace someone who has decided to move on her career.Ā  There is already lot of good advice on hiring best practices. However, I would like to share with you three things that i look for in a candidate before deciding to hire her.Ā  Passion: The first thing that I look for in a person is passion. The passion could be for any topic, not necessarily their jobs or roles in the past but for any topic. I […]