hiring for culture fit (culturevist)

HIRING FOR CULTURE FIT.Lessons from highly effective hiring organisations.

By Andy Parker@ParkerACSCo-Founder at Zealify

Cost of a mis-hire?4-15x annual salary

Causes of mis-hires?89% due to cultural mis-match

Source: Bradford Smart, Topgrading 201: How To Avoid Costly Mis-Hires

Every hire either strengthens or dilutes the culture.(and hence performance)

Obsess over the hiring process & candidate experience.

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“I interviewed the first 300 employees at AirBnB”

Brian Chesky, Co-Founder and CEO AirBnB

Google compiles a ‘hiring packet’ on every candidate, consisting of 50 pages or more for Larry Page to review.

Laszlo BockHead of People Operations

Google

Have well defined hiring criteria to match for values and

culture fit.

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How Chamath Palihapitiya ‘evaluated, recruited and managed’ his team at Facebook

Source: https://medium.com/@chamath/values-1d00431c35f1

Build an exceptional employer brand.

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Image + Reputation =Employer Brand

Source: Brandon Hall Group, 2014

The best employer brands are polarizing.

They attract candidates who are a culture match.

They repel candidates who are a culture mis-match.

Source: https://open.bufferapp.com/introducing-open-salaries-at-buffer-including-our-transparent-formula-and-all-individual-salaries/

Source: http://mashable.com/2015/05/13/elon-musk-job-interview/

“Musk is known to work more than 20 hours a day, on weekdays and weekends. He follows the Steve Jobs playbook of issuing seemingly impossible demands and publicly chewing out employees who fall short of his lofty goals or otherwise hold up the product development process.”

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla

Clearly you wouldn’t chose to work at Tesla if you wanted to 9-

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In Summary

The best hiring organisations are:Focused

DeliberateDon’t leave anything to chance.

Thank you.Questions?

By Andy Parker@ParkerACSCo-Founder at Zealify