This YouTube excerpt (speaker: George B. Thomas) introduces ZenPilot's "A method" for hiring: a formal framework that uses past performance as the primary predictor of future success, paired with rigorous information-gathering and candidate screening to identify A-players. The speaker contrasts this structured approach with the ad-hoc, informal hiring practices common in many organizations.
Most people are in the same boat. When you say what do you follow for hiring I have maybe like 2% of the time gotten oh we have a framework that we're following most of the time it's I don't know I needed somebody and I happen to know this person or you know I posted a job we went through all these things we did this recruiting I had conversations they seemed great. Sometimes we did a test project together we did something on our way in but it's exceedingly rare that anybody's got a framework for how we hire. So who the A method is all about how are we finding folks and using past performance the best indicator of future success or non success how are we using that in the context around it to try to identify hopefully folks who will be A players moving forward and run a really thorough process. So it's largely predicated around kind of all the core pieces of information gathering and then screening.
