Comments on: Top traits for hiring new people http://www.lostremote.com/2007/10/04/top-traits-for-hiring-new-people/ Where TV Finds the Future Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:11:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Howard Owens http://www.lostremote.com/2007/10/04/top-traits-for-hiring-new-people/#comment-514420 Howard Owens Fri, 05 Oct 2007 19:31:15 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2007/10/04/top-traits-for-hiring-new-people/#comment-514420 This is called hiring for talent rather than focusing on skill set. All kinds of bad employees can have great skills, but it's harder to find the right talents for a job. And people should be working in jobs that fit their talents, not so much their skills (skills can be learned). I look at resumes for skills sets. I interview for talents. I hire for both. Much of this comes from the book, "First, Break All the Rules." I've made some good hires over the past couple of years because of system I've developed based on this book. This is called hiring for talent rather than focusing on skill set.

All kinds of bad employees can have great skills, but it’s harder to find the right talents for a job.

And people should be working in jobs that fit their talents, not so much their skills (skills can be learned).

I look at resumes for skills sets. I interview for talents. I hire for both.

Much of this comes from the book, “First, Break All the Rules.”

I’ve made some good hires over the past couple of years because of system I’ve developed based on this book.

]]> By: Doug http://www.lostremote.com/2007/10/04/top-traits-for-hiring-new-people/#comment-513440 Doug Fri, 05 Oct 2007 01:34:34 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2007/10/04/top-traits-for-hiring-new-people/#comment-513440 Would that adaptibility cover coming in a half hour early to cover a story without giving the desk holy hell? How about new hires not griping about working weekends and holidays? Maybe it would mean answering your cell when the caller id shows it's work? Then we can get to understanding how the web is different. Would that adaptibility cover coming in a half hour early to cover a story without giving the desk holy hell?

How about new hires not griping about working weekends and holidays?

Maybe it would mean answering your cell when the caller id shows it’s work?

Then we can get to understanding how the web is different.

]]> By: Rob http://www.lostremote.com/2007/10/04/top-traits-for-hiring-new-people/#comment-513305 Rob Thu, 04 Oct 2007 21:54:25 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2007/10/04/top-traits-for-hiring-new-people/#comment-513305 It would be an interesting world if adaptability was one of the buzzwords used in journalism, especially since there are so many in the business resistant to changes being brought on by technology and the wants and needs of the masses. By the way, did anything "shift" at that seminar? It would be an interesting world if adaptability was one of the buzzwords used in journalism, especially since there are so many in the business resistant to changes being brought on by technology and the wants and needs of the masses.

By the way, did anything “shift” at that seminar?

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.lostremote.com/2007/10/04/top-traits-for-hiring-new-people/#comment-513272 Anonymous Thu, 04 Oct 2007 21:04:13 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2007/10/04/top-traits-for-hiring-new-people/#comment-513272 was there much synergy at Paradigm? was there much synergy at Paradigm?

]]> By: Gorman http://www.lostremote.com/2007/10/04/top-traits-for-hiring-new-people/#comment-513154 Gorman Thu, 04 Oct 2007 18:19:32 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2007/10/04/top-traits-for-hiring-new-people/#comment-513154 Pomo, already did, and loved it. Pomo, already did, and loved it.

]]> By: John Proffitt http://www.lostremote.com/2007/10/04/top-traits-for-hiring-new-people/#comment-513105 John Proffitt Thu, 04 Oct 2007 17:16:35 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2007/10/04/top-traits-for-hiring-new-people/#comment-513105 Adaptability should be a #1 trait for almost any kind of business today. It's not just the media biz that's changing quickly and repeatedly. Gotta have folks that think on their feet, are inquisitive, creative, and so on. Sounds simple, but man is it difficult to find these folks. Truth is, most of us want a steady-state world to live in day to day. It's just easier. But that's not the business world we really inhabit anymore. Adaptability should be a #1 trait for almost any kind of business today. It’s not just the media biz that’s changing quickly and repeatedly. Gotta have folks that think on their feet, are inquisitive, creative, and so on.

Sounds simple, but man is it difficult to find these folks. Truth is, most of us want a steady-state world to live in day to day. It’s just easier. But that’s not the business world we really inhabit anymore.

]]> By: pomoblogfan http://www.lostremote.com/2007/10/04/top-traits-for-hiring-new-people/#comment-513070 pomoblogfan Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:37:59 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2007/10/04/top-traits-for-hiring-new-people/#comment-513070 btw- i would recommend everyone use the handy link in the sidebar to read terry heaton's "jeff zucker is an at&t puppet piece" too. btw- i would recommend everyone use the handy link in the sidebar to read terry heaton’s “jeff zucker is an at&t puppet piece” too.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.lostremote.com/2007/10/04/top-traits-for-hiring-new-people/#comment-513069 Anonymous Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:35:32 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2007/10/04/top-traits-for-hiring-new-people/#comment-513069 yeah, be inflexible and let a name throw ya'. yeah, be inflexible and let a name throw ya’.

]]> By: Skeptic http://www.lostremote.com/2007/10/04/top-traits-for-hiring-new-people/#comment-513067 Skeptic Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:34:02 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2007/10/04/top-traits-for-hiring-new-people/#comment-513067 I don't think I'd attend seminar held by a company named "Paradigm." I don’t think I’d attend seminar held by a company named “Paradigm.”

]]> By: Terry Heaton http://www.lostremote.com/2007/10/04/top-traits-for-hiring-new-people/#comment-513066 Terry Heaton Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:33:05 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2007/10/04/top-traits-for-hiring-new-people/#comment-513066 Good advice, Cory. The caveat, of course, is that the company hiring flexibile and adaptive people must itself be flexible and adaptive, and this isn't something we're really very good at. Good advice, Cory. The caveat, of course, is that the company hiring flexibile and adaptive people must itself be flexible and adaptive, and this isn’t something we’re really very good at.

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