How not to recruit, by @Bensign.
Adam Rifkin stashed this in Hiring
Stashed in: Silicon Valley!, Twitter!, Zynga!, Intelligence
Don't do what Mike Brown did in the above photo.
No matter how much "life is good" at Twitter, they shouldn't rub it in peoples' faces.
It would take A LOT for me to be convinced that life is good at Twitter.
Best ways to evaluate potential hires:
The upshot of this research is that work sample tests (e.g., seeing if people can actually do key elements of a job -- if a secretary can type or a programmer can write code), general mental ability (IQ and related tests), and structured interviews had the highest validity of all methods examined...
http://www.bakadesuyo.com/what-are-the-scientific-time-tested-methods-f
Other research-based tips:
http://www.bakadesuyo.com/who-should-you-hire
Interesting fact -- Salespeople hired based on optimism alone outsold their more pessimistic counterparts by 57%:
http://www.bakadesuyo.com/should-you-hire-people-based-on-how-optimisti
so wrong.
2:49 PM Jul 25 2012