If I don’t hear #2 & #3, I get concerned. Great interview tips.
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The tech/information sector supports 262,000 jobs in New York City, making it the second-biggest sector of the local economy. Hiring is definitely on the upswing and is there a company in the city that isnât screaming for tech help and even help in other areas? They may be screaming, but they just donât seem to be pulling the trigger and therein lies the rub. We come across articles all the time about how to hire your next employee, culture fit, and on and on.
The Goldilocks Syndrome: Why Startups Canât Find Employees
What’s the most random task you had to do in your last job?
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Found this great article today that is perfectly timed given how we’re interviewing right now (and kind-of always are):
“Conduct the Perfect Job Interview in Twelve Simple Steps” via Jeff Haden on LinkedIn.
Contactive is always looking for great people. I find that the way I interview here in our 10-person startup is not too dissimilar from the way I interviewed at Microsoft. I continue to focus on assessing a candidate’s personality, their passion, and their skills (in roughly that order), using mostly experiential questions like “Talk to me about a time on in your old position where you had to talk someone down from a bad decision.”
Given the odd jobs that you sometimes have to do in a smaller company like ours, I’ve added a new one which is “Tell me about the most random task you had to do in your previous job that wasn’t in your actual job description.” I like to see how weird their “odd job” was to get a sense for their tolerances for doing random stuff. It may not be a perfect question, but I’ve heard some pretty interesting responses because of it.
#neato 