The Right Talent
Once your mission and objectives are defined, you know who you need to bring
on board to help on your journey. The focus in hiring the right talent is now
shifting away from ensuring that the candidate is the BEST one out of the pool
of many and instead to the candidate being the RIGHT one for the job. Does the
candidate have sufficient experience, is flexible enough, excited to learn, is he
or she a fit for our mission, and willing to go on the journey with us? These are
the questions the companies who attract rockstars are now asking.
At CTP we follow this exact philosophy. We are not interested in hiring people
who are simply the best fit against the experience and education criteria spec-
ified in our job reqs but might not be a good team player. We would take a per-
son who might be missing a checkmark on a couple of categories of experience
but demonstrates the hunger to learn and passion for what we do over some-
one who has all the right skills but just wants to clock in and out. Technology is
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