Even if those are short term projects you should look for a few things: 0- They should care about getting projects done, in reasonable time and without the nee

Even if those are short term projects you should look for a few things: 0- They should care about getting projects done, in reasonable time and without the need for subsequent reworking. Regardless of what the project actually is. 1- They should have internalized that nothing is ever finished. After the "building" phase comes the "maintenance" phase and they should be aware of this and behave like they know that maintenance for every line they write will be one of their long term task (see #5, #6). 2- Willingness to do the least pleasurable and more mundane parts of the project (possibly trying to reduce the time needed through automation if it makes sense), that are necessary to finish it. 3- They should be able to always keep a clear idea of the current status of the project, what they still need to do and what is still missing. They shouldn't have a tendency to throw away time to look into unnecessary and irrelevant details (i.e. technical rabbit holes). 4- They shouldn't lose interest or lose direction when something doesn't go according to plan. In these cases the plan should be re-evaluated and a new plan defined. 5- They shouldn't be too hasty with what they have to do just to get it over with quickly and jump to the next thing. 6- Understand that there is a difference between a project that needs to be completed and used in production and something you can experiment on and has no hard requirements related to when it will be ready and how reliable it will be.