The Best Articles in Hiring

When hiring developers, there are many things we are looking for, but over the years I have found that raw coding ability is easily the most important quality to look for. I can quickly…

What makes a great product manager, and how do you become one? This is Ken Norton's classic essay on the role of product management that launched thousands of PM careers.

«Being a product manager requires wearing multiple hats. I often joke that much of the time your job is to be the advocate for whoever isn’t currently in the room — the customer, engineering, sales, executives, marketing.»

There’s plenty you can learn without ever stepping foot in an office.

Below is an excerpt from a talk I gave at the eShares Town Hall in November 2015.

Organizations can’t promote everyone; there will always be high-performing employees who want to get promoted in situations where promotion isn’t possible or requires waiting. This creates a problem…

Anna Binder joined Asana back in 2016 as its first HR executive. She shares her advice from helping weave the cultural fabric, from getting comfortable with feedback to maintaining a healthy exec…

While no one expects job candidates to have perfect records, you also don’t want to give prospective employers reasons for doubt. So how should you answer this common behaviorial interview question?:…

From quiet quitting to the Great Resignation, why we won’t stop making up words about work.

Hiring managers, executives, CEOs—especially those in tech—are proud to say that we only consider applicants with an unrelenting drive for success and a

New technology — plus the pandemic remote work trend — is helping fraudsters use someone else’s identity to get a job.

«It’s unlikely that a cybercriminal would get a job using deepfake audio clone, but attackers can (and do) use cloned human voices for workplace phishing attacks.»

Digital technologies are reshaping the world of work and companies need to ensure they too evolve and keep pace with an increasingly digital labour market.

How C-Suite leaders can handle a layoff with tact and grace in order to not mess up their company's brand image or employee's well-being.

«After the layoff is over, pull the team together to inform them of what has transpired and provide them with reassurances as to their future.»

Get a first look at Google's new certificate programs and a new feature of Google search designed to help job-seekers everywhere.

It’s not 2010 anymore.

«We are hemorrhaging talent, both salaried and production (factory workers) and can’t find/hire qualified applicants who will work for what previous employees were making. We’re going months without filling positions, mostly because our HR VP believes that we’re all overpaid. The market believes otherwise… I wonder who will win??”»

Koru CEO Kristen Hamilton helps hundreds of people hire and get hired every year. These are the traits she knows translate into excellent performance on the job.

Ryan Roslansky, the CEO of LinkedIn, thinks the site should be a place where its members’ billions of years of collective work experience should be freed to upskill anyone, anywhere, any time. Skills,…

Engineering leader Marco Rogers (Lever, Yammer, Clover Health) debunks some of the most common recruiting tropes and walks through his four top interviewing practices for startups.

Better hiring leads to better work environments, less turnover, and more innovation and productivity. When you understand the limitations and pitfalls of the job interview, you improve your chances of…

People tend to make snap judgments when they're interviewing job candidates. The problem is, these predictions from the first 10 seconds are useless.