Today, on the way home, I had two blogs in my head. One was a rant about bad customer service, which happened to me on the way home, TWICE. The second one was on leadership and recruiting. The bad customer service I can do on Facebook, so this is the one we ended up with today.
You all know I work at a great company, and we have been recruiting quite a few people this fiscal year. We have made some really great hires, and we have not settled until we found the right person. Just this week we are making 4 offers, after a lot of hard work from the hiring managers and our recruiters.
In an all hands meeting our VP talked about five things that he looks for in candidates. They are:
1) Have Passion
2) Proven evidence of greatness
3) Trajectory
4) Energy amplifier
5) Record of results
He interviews everyone that we hire and occasionally we put someone in front of him who he does not agree with in one of these five areas.
We have a methodology called behavioral interviewing to assess the competencies and technical part of the job. These five characteristics are different than the competencies.
Yesterday in the All Hands someone said "What about smart?" "I thought about putting Smart on the list but I don't know how to interview for that. I know how to interview for NOT SMART." We recently walked through some recently interviewed candidates and their resumes, during an extended leadership meeting. We combed through them to see if we could reveal evidence of these five characteristics. We could guess from the resume about most of them, and then during the interview validate our guesses.
These are simple characteristics but difficult to find all of them in candidates. Recruiting in a mixture of art and science and takes lots of practice.
Know any good people looking for jobs? Do they have these 5 traits/characteristics and are they looking for a great company to work for? Quality Engineer or Architect, or customer support? Send them our way: INTUIT
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