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."
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."
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.
We define an A Player this way: a candidate who has at least a 90 percent chance of achieving a set of outcomes that only the top 10 percent of possible candidates could achieve.