365QOD- Day735

“If I hire someone just like me then I have doubled the company’s strengths and doubled it’s weaknesses” – my response

I spoke these words recently during an interview.  I was asked, “What do you look for in candidates?”  I strongly feel that we must hire people that are different than ourselves.

In my opinion, most interviewers are asking themselves a simple question, “Is this person just like me?”  The closer you are to their vision of themselves then the more likely you are to get the job.

It requires a lot of self-awareness to be able to honest and realize that we all bring strengths and weaknesses to a job.  In order for a team to be stronger we need to hire people that complete the team not just duplicate team members.

Unfortunately, most folks are stuck on this replica idea.  Their belief is that if the person is just like them they will succeed just like them.  And after all they are doing the interview so it must be true.

Today’s question is:

“How do you handle working with very different people?”