The Art of Recruiting

Guy Kawasaki elaborates on some steps to gaining and retaining quality employees. I have been recruiting, in one capacity or another, for a long time. I have ignored some of these (1, 4, 5, particularly) and paid the price. There are a couple of these (2, 8) that are a tough sell to managers who prefer tried-and-true, hundred-year-old hiring practices.

The art of recruiting is the purest form of evangelism because you're not simply asking people to try your product, buy your product, or partner with you. Instead, you are asking them to bet their lives on your organization. Can it get any scarier for them, and tougher for you, than this?

1. Hire better than yourself.
2. Hire infected people.
3. Ignore the irrelevant.
4. Double check your intuition.
5. Check independent references.
6. Apply the Shopping Center Test.
7. Use all your weapons.
8. Sell all the decision makers.
9. Wait to compensate.
10. Don't assume you're done.

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