Ryan Deiss shows how to spot outcome-focused candidates in interviews. Ask them how they'd move a specific metric from X to Y and what tasks that requires. If they can map tasks to the result, they think in outcomes. If they can't, they're task-focused and won't advance far.
In hiring, we have task-based people and outcome-based people. So the simplest thing you can do to find out, can this person actually rise up to your level of expectation, go to them and say, okay, you're great at doing these tasks, but now what I want you to think about is how do we change this metric? We need to optimize this metric. It's at X, we need to get it to Y. Do you know the series of tasks that must be completed to achieve that? If they do, if they can tell you, and if you're confident, you have somebody who can ascend. If they don't, you probably have a task-based person, not an outcome-based person.
