Who

First annotation on Oct 31st, 2023.

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When we met with Buckley, he got straight to the point: “One of the hardest challenges is to hire people from outside the company. One of the basic failures in the hiring process is this: What is a resume? It is a record of a person’s career with all of the accomplishments embellished and all the failures removed.”Oct 31 2023 4:48PM
Steve Kerr, the legendary management expert who built Crotonville for Jack Welch at GE, and who most recently served as managing director and chief learning officer at Goldman Sachs, has a simple answer: “Otherwise smart people struggle to hire strangers. People unfamiliar with great hiring methods consider the process a mysterious black art.”Oct 31 2023 4:49PM
In the end, trick questions might land you the most knowledgeable candidate, and maybe even someone who can beat a Russian chess master, but knowledge and ability to do the job are not the same thing.Oct 31 2023 4:50PM
We define an A Player this way: a candidate who has at least a percent chance of achieving a set of outcomes that only the top percent of possible candidates could achieve.Oct 31 2023 4:52PM