hiring for culture fit (culturevist)
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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
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