7 Hiring
This chapter covers
- Getting into the hiring mindset
- Using a hiring framework
- Staffing from scratch versus hiring for an existing team
- Hiring externally versus growing internal talent
- Building a healthy hiring pipeline
- Sending positive-reinforcement messages to employees with hiring programs
It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.—Steve Jobs, Co-Founder, Apple, Inc.
In the soft glow of the early-morning light, you find yourself surrounded by a multitude of open browser tabs containing the résumés of candidates for your software engineering team. The weight of responsibility rests on your shoulders—responsibility for sculpting the future ...
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