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HIRE FOR WHAT YOU’RE LIKELY TO OVERLOOK
Talent is good. Practice is better. Passion is best.
—Frank Lloyd Wright
YOU’VE ATTRACTED A SOLID POOL of job candidates. Now, what should you look for in selecting the top candidate?
Most companies focus on job-specific skills and experience. Can the person do the job? Has the person done the job? Some dig deeper; they try to determine the person’s values. Skills, experience, and values—all very important. But a candidate could check all those boxes yet still disappoint you, because there’s one more category that strongly predicts success. And you’re likely to overlook it.
Theo Epstein was a pioneer of the analytics movement in baseball, which brought greater sophistication to player evaluation ...
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