Blog Of The Mythical man-month-talk about some recent recruitment experiences

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First, recruit the right people, rather than find the best people. The right person is the person who is competent for the current job and the need for the job, or the person who has demonstrated a strong learning ability in the past, and can predict to be familiar with the job as soon as possible. There are very few people who can quickly get familiar with it. There are more or less differences in the new work environment, business, and methods and tools used. What is needed is still learning ability and adaptability.

The study of learning ability is a difficult part of recruitment, but now I think it is possible to consider the degree of proficiency in the content involved in my work, familiar with the extended content of the work. For example, engaged in quality management and related work is a very systematic field for quality management, including ISO quality management system, 6 Sigma Methodology, process management, project management will systematically involve quality management content, but many of these content will not be applied immediately in your work, knowing how much can reflect your attention to your work and your systemic attention to knowledge. If you are engaged in quality work and pay attention to this content, you can describe your extended and systematic learning ability, as long as this capability is embodied, even new business fields and new knowledge points can be quickly familiarized with and applied.

Even if you have been working for many years, do not ignore the basics and theories. These are explicit knowledge. They are the process of explicit accumulation and accumulation of our work experience and skills. The focus of this knowledge is not to mention the value it brings to applications, but to reflect the active learning, systematization, and a proactive attitude towards work and learning. The main reason for not growing up at work is often passive acceptance, with less self-thinking and summarization, no focus on methods and steps, and no focus on knowledge domains and extensions, it only remains at the current stage of work. This is not the capability we refer to, but the ability to cope with new jobs and adapt to the new environment.

There are plans, actions, and improvements in everything, and methods and steps in this process. This is the basic principle and logic for doing anything. This logic develops the ability to define, analyze, and solve problems. In terms of self-thinking, we must first turn this bend and consider how to define one thing clearly and do it in several steps, what methods and tools are required for each step, what is output, what resources and people are involved, and what you can say in your opinion about anything. What you feel about others is that your ideas are clear and organized, there are methods and rules for doing things.

Companies that have been working for many years without much improvement, often blame themselves, work environments, and do not have too many opportunities, but seldom think about self-driving problems. Often, the most important thing to improve ability is self-driving force and mentality change. We usually talk about opportunities. What is the opportunity? The essence of an opportunity is a quantitative change accumulated at ordinary times. Your actions and abilities constantly exceed others' expectations. With these two points, you do not have to worry about opportunities. It is just a matter of time.