Pay attention to THIS when hiring
9 Apr 2024

A hiring talk about the mistake of recruiting people too much like yourself. The speaker reflects on past hires and argues for building teams with different perspectives instead of clones.

A hiring talk about the mistake of recruiting people too much like yourself. The speaker reflects on past hires and argues for building teams with different perspectives instead of clones.
You must have been the star marketer. You don't grow into this position if you're not. And so you're really good at the doing. How do you hire people who know more than you do it? It starts with mistakes that I've made in the past. I was running channel sales for a public tech company. I had a team of people that I was hiring and scaling this thing up. And I had a really smart HR leader come to me and say, you know, you should really make sure that as you're hiring people, you don't hire people in your own image. And I said, I would never do that. I'm a intelligent, forward thinking kind of person. And I looked back at the people I hired and they were all like me. It was shocking how similar they were to me. And I realized early on that I was making a huge mistake because I was not bringing in different perspectives.

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