The document discusses lessons from highly effective hiring organizations. It emphasizes the importance of focusing on culture fit when hiring to avoid costly mis-hires. Successful companies like AirBnB, Google, and Facebook are very deliberate in their hiring processes, conducting in-depth reviews of candidates and having well-defined criteria for assessing cultural match. Building an exceptional employer brand is also key to attracting the right candidates and repelling those who are not a cultural fit. The best hiring organizations leave nothing to chance and are very focused on strengthening their culture through new hires.

1. HIRING FOR CULTURE FIT.
Lessons from highly effective hiring organisations.
By Andy Parker
@ParkerACS
Co-Founder at Zealify

3. Cost of a mis-hire?
4-15x annual salary
Causes of mis-hires?
89% due to cultural mis-match
Source: Bradford Smart, Topgrading 201: How To Avoid Costly Mis-Hires

4. Every hire either strengthens or
dilutes the culture.
(and hence performance)

5. Obsess over the hiring process &
candidate experience.
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6. “I interviewed the first 300
employees at AirBnB”
Brian Chesky, Co-Founder and CEO
AirBnB

7. Google compiles a ‘hiring
packet’ on every candidate,
consisting of 50 pages or
more for Larry Page to review.
Laszlo Bock
Head of People Operations
Google

8. Have well defined hiring criteria to
match for values and culture fit.
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10. How Chamath Palihapitiya ‘evaluated, recruited and managed’
his team at Facebook
Source: https://medium.com/@chamath/values-1d00431c35f1

11. Build an exceptional employer
brand.
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12. Image + Reputation = Employer
Brand
Source: Brandon Hall Group, 2014

14. The best employer brands are
polarizing.
They attract candidates who are a culture match.
They repel candidates who are a culture mis-match.

15. Source: https://open.bufferapp.com/introducing-open-salaries-at-buffer-including-our-transparent-formula-and-all-individual-salaries/

16. Source: http://mashable.com/2015/05/13/elon-musk-job-interview/
“Musk is known to work more
than 20 hours a day, on
weekdays and weekends. He
follows the Steve Jobs playbook
of issuing seemingly impossible
demands and publicly chewing
out employees who fall short of
his lofty goals or otherwise hold
up the product development
process.”
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla
Clearly you wouldn’t chose to
work at Tesla if you wanted to 9-5

17. In Summary
The best hiring organisations are:
Focused
Deliberate
Don’t leave anything to chance.

18. Thank you.
Questions?
By Andy Parker
@ParkerACS
Co-Founder at Zealify