Category Archives: Hiring

Job Interview 2.0: “Tell me about your network.”

March 11, 2008 – 1:31 pm

I’m thinking about the hiring process again…
I don’t care what you say you can do. Lying is a least common denominator skill (anyone can do it).
I’m kind of interested in what you demonstrate you can do. But not really. I’ve worked with too many Great XYZs (engineers, programmers, designers, project managers, etc.) […]

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What’s an A Player?

February 28, 2008 – 8:50 am

I’m thinking about team-building again…
Conventional wisdom says that:

A players hire A players
B players hire C players
C players hire losers

You see the problem… If you don’t hire exclusively A players then your entire company will quickly fill with losers, dragging you and your company to the grave.
It’s a good thing there’s an easy solution, right? […]

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Last Call

February 21, 2008 – 1:07 pm

Drink Up
How many of you have ever heard of Devon Energy? Devon is a relatively modest ‘independent’ oil producer based in Oklahoma City, with operations in the Gulf of Mexico, the Plains states, and the Southwest. Why Devon?
In today’s Wall Street Journal , Devon is mentioned in passing in an interesting piece in the […]

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