The Best Articles in Hiring
The most useful articles in Hiring from around the web—beginners to advanced—curated by thought leaders and our community. We focus on timeless pieces and update the list whenever we discover new, must-read articles or videos—make sure to bookmark and revisit this page.
Top 5 Hiring Articles
At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved in Hiring by Refind users.
- Hire a Top Performer Every Time with These Interview Questions
- Here’s Google’s Secret to Hiring the Best People
- You hired a deepfake: Get ready for the rise of imposter employees
- Google Just Made a Huge Announcement and Its a Game Changer for Job Seekers and Employers (Exclusive)
- How to Hire a Product Manager
Videos
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Lessons from one of the world’s top executive recruiters
Lauren Ipsen is one of the most well-known and respected executive recruiters in the industry, having placed over 90 senior product leaders at companies incl...
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How to Freaking Hire Great Developers
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…
How to Hire a Product Manager
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.»
How to Evaluate a Company’s Culture During a Remote Hiring Process
There’s plenty you can learn without ever stepping foot in an office.
How to Hire — Startups, Wanderlust, and Life Hacking — Medium
Below is an excerpt from a talk I gave at the eShares Town Hall in November 2015.
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How to Motivate a Top Performer — When You Can’t Promote Them
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…
How to build your culture like a product — Lessons from Anna Binder, Asana’s Head of People
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…
How to Answer “Tell Me About a Time You Failed” in a Job Interview
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?:…
Quiet hiring and the endless quest to coin terms about work
From quiet quitting to the Great Resignation, why we won’t stop making up words about work.
You can’t hire ambitious people and then ask them to stop being ambitious.
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
Short Articles
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You hired a deepfake: Get ready for the rise of imposter employees
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 skills: How employers can respond to future demand
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.
Chief | Layoffs Are Coming: How to Handle a Workforce Reduction Correctly
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.»
Google Just Made a Huge Announcement and Its a Game Changer for Job Seekers and Employers (Exclusive)
Get a first look at Google's new certificate programs and a new feature of Google search designed to help job-seekers everywhere.
Companies Are Desperate for Workers. Why Aren’t They Doing the One Thing That Will Attract Them?
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??”»
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles in Hiring.
Hire a Top Performer Every Time with These Interview Questions
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.
LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky: Skills, Not Degrees, Matter Most in Hiring
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,…
My Lessons from Interviewing 400+ Engineers Over Three Startups
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.
Job Interviews Don’t Work
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…
Here’s Google’s Secret to Hiring the Best People
People tend to make snap judgments when they're interviewing job candidates. The problem is, these predictions from the first 10 seconds are useless.
Thought Leaders
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Harvard Business Review
The best ideas in business and management to help people, organizations, and economies work better.
GV
Launched as Google Ventures in 2009, GV supports innovative founders moving the world forward.

Basecamp
The official account for Basecamp®, everyone’s favorite tool to keep teams on the same page. (Twitter only for updates, write support@basecamp.com for help.)
Greylock
We partner early with consumer, enterprise, and crypto software entrepreneurs. Our mission is to help realize rare potential. Newsletter: https://bit.ly/3r9ERGg
First Round
First round, first hires, first product, first customers — we’ve helped @NotionHQ, @Roblox, @Uber, @Square, and 300 others tackle these firsts and more.
Publications
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Harvard Business Review
The best ideas in business and management to help people, organizations, and economies work better.
Social Media Today
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The Muse
Find work that's worth it.
Vox
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Fast Company
Inspiring readers to think beyond traditional boundaries & create the future of business. Subscribe to our daily newsletter: http://fastcompany.com/newsletters
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