Entrepreneurship hiring experience to talk about: personality, psychology, conduct, skills, which is the weight

I'm afraid most people will think that people who have professional skills should be recruited into the entrepreneurial team. But my 4 failed experiences tell me that this is a wrong idea. The reasons for dismissal and resignation are not the ability to work, more than the three main problems: personality, psychology, character defects and deficiencies.

Dominance and invisibility: risks that cannot be easily examined

The skill here refers to the ability of a person to be in a certain profession, and such ability can easily be examined by some topics. For example, ask the designer to use Photoshop to draw the advertisement design according to the advertisement request, the skill is good or bad, it is easy to see through each other's works.

However, a person's personality, psychology, conduct, whether intuitive, convenient inspection out? Like the test volume, can show the score of each item, the bad news is that there is still no effective tool for a person's character, psychology, conduct measurement. It is true that some scientists try to measure people's characteristics through complex tests, but those test subjects are either complex or easily manipulated.

Most people agree that it is almost impossible to understand a person's character, psychology, and character in a short time, regardless of the correct point of view. But the basic certainty is that a person's personality, psychological, moral flaw, this person will bring to the team and the company, he is the black sheep of the team, he destroyed the stability of the team, he can not produce actual benefits, in the long run is a huge risk.

Team Wars: High costs

With my personal experience to share, the use of personality, psychological, moral defects will pay what price.

From the original company I will be a better relationship with the technical support A to the new entrepreneurial team, and to a committee to the sales Director of the task. But A's character is introverted, the crisis is more negative, the habit of compromise, concessions, passive, working together for a year, almost no initiative to report the progress of the habit, unless I go to him. I had thought that if I bought more books and trained them, he would be able to do the job, unfortunately, the performance of a year without progress, wasted a lot of my time, money and investment. I let a quit, he is very good, but his character is not qualified for the needs of the job.

The second is B,python programmer, the first interview I saw him in GitHub have a project, there is a personal site, but also let the company's technical interviews, technical evaluation is better, I think to find a very good talent. One months later, the guy's skills are really good, Internet popular framework and technology are dabbling, but I noticed a point: like heavy metal rock, QQ space There are many kill Matt Pictures, taciturn, and people never look at each other's eyes, has been low head, one day, I travel, he put the hard disk format, Days do not come to the company, said that the resignation has not handover of work, ask the reason, said no pay rise, but this request did not mention to me. Although I'm not a psychiatrist, this solitary approach, to some extent, seems to be a communication barrier, so sensitive that I let the rest of the team take care of him. b Strange manners, made me swear not to recruit social, communication and a series of psychological barriers to join the team, counted in the Shanghai recruitment of C, I actually recruited 2 such people, C and B difference is, often do not work on time, casual leave, the body exudes a stink, but technology is possible. Often think of these two people, I feel that their brain is not normal, is a fool.

C is a salesman, 35 years old, very talkative, sales experience, can make the atmosphere of the office hot. Until one day, the guy spends more than 1000 on a business trip (he asks for an accountable, initial fee is not much), and I start to think something is wrong, and when I start talking to him about it, ask for a capitation, he starts to threaten me; after the financial audit and agents found, C Take invoices repeat reimbursement, financial find him check, start Rogue. Finally, dismiss the deal. Single by the threat of C, let me very angry, but I will not blame C, their own personnel improper, guilty of the wrong to bear.

I know that the reader will question why I have not adopted a system to solve this problem. For example, C, let him strictly implement the travel management system, not to solve the problem of false reimbursement? Start-up companies in the initial common problem is that many systems are either not perfect, or flexible space is very large. System is indeed a problem, but the core of the essence of the problem is the improper employment.

These three people let me pay a heavy price, as well as high cost, but also serious overdraft my energy, fortunately now recovered, now think of these three people I still feel a cold back, fear.

Terminally ill: changing the odds

Forget the book, the general view is that people at the age of 25 will form their own intrinsic values and personality, 25 years after the change is very difficult. I believe you also know a saying: Character determines fate. I believe that everyone, like me, finds that someone has bad behavior, thoughts, habits, and helps each other change in good faith, but the tragic fact is: you can do nothing.

In short, people are very malleable through environment and education when they are young, but as they grow older, they are almost less malleable. How to say, people at the age of 3 years old ~7, you say, your behavior, he will imitate and learn, can listen to, and gradually form their own worldview, values. However, not most people's growth has a good living environment, the environment will shape people, the environment will affect people.

I've had a lot of expectations about my friends at school, and I hope they will become the most important friends and confidant in life. Sadly, I can't do anything, I can lend them money, accompany them to play, but can not change their deep rooted in the idea of solid-cut. Then I drifted away from them, and from that time on, my subconscious told me that you couldn't change a person unless you changed yourself.

For newly recruited employees, we can improve his skills. However, the personality, psychology, conduct defects of the people, you must dispel your optimism, even if you intend to change the other side, no years environment and the influence of the word and deed, you can not achieve this grand wish in the short term. When recruiting, you can only start by filtering those who are well developed in the environment, have positive psychology, sincere conduct, three view all reliable person, not necessarily each item must 10 points, after 7 points can, do not put each other's professional skill to look too heavy, as long as the other side learning ability is very strong, has the plasticity, this is important.

Century inheritance: people-oriented

Today there are still people who believe that a good product is the key to a company's success, a good business model is the key to a company's success, in fact, if you look at investors, superb investors are always based on investment in people, such as soft silver son, Buffett and Munger, Y combinator Paul Graham.

Every company has a great thirst for talent, but sometimes, people confuse the definition of talent, think that the professional skills is the talent, think the other side of the label is written XX engineer, XX Manager is the talent, if only the skills as a standard, then full street are talented people.

Many companies have gone into an erroneous zone, that is, the recruitment of jobs, is the recruitment of competent people, regardless of each other's psychology, personality, conduct. Most companies are still doing this, even as I did earlier in my own time, I recruited programmers to make them do everything else, regardless of the cost of the team's stability caused by the serious blow and damage, the company did not benefit, but paid a high cost.

For every entrepreneur, when you hire someone, ask yourself a question: Do I have a comprehensive assessment and understanding? If I'm wrong, are you willing to take on the consequences of a team or a bankrupt company? If you do not want to, and do not wish to close the company, it is necessary to rigorous investigation and evaluation of the staff to enter your team, to observe their personality, psychology, conduct, skills are qualified.