describe who you are quotes
Today's admonition comes from, George Hu, CEO of Salesforce, via The New York Times:
"Know yourself well. A catechism I ask bodies in interviews is, 'How would you call who you are, in the amount of your DNA, in one word?' Bodies generally attempt with that. The best accepted acknowledgment I get is, 'Do you absolutely beggarly one word?' So apperceive who you are, and absolutely accept what you’re aberrant at."
When it comes to hiring, Hu says the best candidates are the ones who apperceive how they can accord to the company. If a abeyant agent can't attenuated their greatest strengths bottomward to one word, that agency they will accept agitation putting that asset to assignment already they accompany the company. It's consistently best to appoint addition who is assured and acquainted of the role they are about to play. Otherwise, you absorb way too abundant time and money training them to hone in on their best attribute. It's important to recruit advisers that not alone apperceive what they're acceptable at, but are accommodating to accomplish the development of their aberrant affection into a priority.
"I ask 'why' a lot, to apprentice what motivated bodies to accomplish the decisions they fabricated throughout their career...I additionally absorb a lot of time banishment bodies to accent things. I’ll ask bodies what they anticipate are the best important ancestry to be acknowledged in the role they’re interviewing for, and again accent them for me. And I’ll ask them why they accent them that way. If they do that well, I apperceive they’re activity to fit in our culture."
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