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Here’s the right way to ask interview questions
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“So tell me about yourself.” What a terrible question to ask in an interview. In my experience, most startups are interviewing the wrong way. They’re asking surface-level questions that gloss over the details that really matter: whether the person on the other side of the Zoom call is capable of doing the job you are hiring them for. Having great products, excellent marketing, and top-notch sales may get your company to $1M in revenue, but sooner or later, a bad hiring process will catch up with you. After more than 15 years of HR consulting experience, I’ve seen it time and time again: Startup gets funding and a mandate to scale; startup hires aggressively; startup finds that too many hires were bad fits, setting the company back in the process. Every one of these mistakes is fixable. If you want to equip your team with the right people, you need the following:
Easy, right? I’ll make it simple for you. I've created a video to guide you through my process for designing interview questions to evaluate candidates and identify those who are not a good fit. I’ve distilled over a decade of HR experience into this video, and know it can transform your hiring process. Click the button below to watch the video and jump years ahead in your interviewing process.
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The last edition, where I broke down the real reasons behind Block's layoffs, got a lot of great feedback and a few of you reached out asking me to keep going with this kind of analysis. So here we are. This time, Atlassian is in the hot seat. Like Block, Atlassian is not a startup, but the lessons buried in what happened there are directly relevant to anyone building and scaling a team right now. If anything, the Atlassian story hits closer to home for HR and people ops leaders because it...
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