Hiring for Your Team, One Day Workshop in Sweden
I will be at Let's Test the week of May 20. I am offering a version of my new hiring workshop, Hiring For Your Team: Culture Trumps (Technical) Skills. If you will be at Let's Test and you have not yet...
View ArticleWhen is “Hiring for Culture” Discrimination?
There's a great post, Please: Stop “Hiring to Cultural Fit”. Laura Bergells explains the problems of what she sees when people supposedly hire for cultural fit: They consider for personality first They...
View ArticleThree Interview Questions That Don’t Gauge Cultural Fit
I saw this post on Twitter, The 3 Interview Questions You Should Ask to Instantly Gauge Fit. I got excited. Oh, maybe we do have questions that address cultural fit. No such luck. More stupid...
View ArticleTech Managers: Time to Grow Up and Manage Like Humans
I read Technology's Man Problem in the New York Times this weekend. I thought those days were long gone—but they're not. Since when is it acceptable to make any comment about anybody's body part at...
View ArticleAre You Hiring for Helpfulness?
I was reading IDEO's Culture of Helping. Especially if you are hiring for an agile team, you want to hire for helpfulness. Do You Have a Helpful Culture? Notice, that it's not about expertise or...
View ArticleHire for Cultural Fit: It’s Time to Add Women, Pt 1
In the blogosphere and in the press, there is an increasing notice about the lack of women in technical fields and management positions. Here is some data: Why women leave tech: what the research says...
View ArticleHire for Cultural Fit: It’s Time to Add Other People, Pt 2
In Hire for Cultural Fit: It's Time to Add Women, Pt 1, I wrote about the need to add women to your team, and what you could do. But just hiring women isn't enough. You need race and age diversity,...
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Hiring for Cultural Fit Slides Posted
I've given webinars and talks about hiring for cultural fit for years. A couple of weeks ago, I was in Waterloo/Kitchener, Ontario. When I spoke for Communitech, I updated my talk, Hiring for Cultural...
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Interview with FogCreek About Hiring for Technical Fit
Several weeks ago, the nice folks at FogCreek interviewed me. It's here: Technical Hiring and Cultural Fit – Interview with Johanna Rothman. The interview ranged over many topics: Cultural fit...
View ArticleDo You Hire for Confidence, Comfort or Capability?
In the software industry, we toss around terms such as “Holacracy,” “meritocracy,” and “collaborative environment.” We claim to hire for skills. That's not what I see. I see hiring managers hiring...
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