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It's kind of crazy that we live in a world where questions like this are even a thing. > how do you foster a culture in which everyone keeps it up to date You
by pwdisswordfish9 4y ago
It's kind of crazy that we live in a world where questions like this are even a thing.
> how do you foster a culture in which everyone keeps it up to date
You hire the people who will do the stuff you need them to do, and you don't hire the people who won't.
Given all the well-known strife over hiring games that are the source of constant complaints, you'd think that meant that most orgs' resident personnel experts would be at a place where they already at least have the basics covered—ensuring that employees will be able to manage to do the stuff that they're supposed to do after being hired. And yet here we are.
How much market inefficiency and dysfunction in the industry would disappear if people abandoned any illusions about the efficacy of riddles to attempt to measure aptitude (usually by approaching it sideways), and just focused on these two things instead: "We are a company that does X. We need to hire someone to take care of Y. Part of that involves doing Z. Can you do Z (or figure out how)? Will you do Z?"
- landemva 4y agoAnd ... will you update documentation? Do you have examples of prior work maintaining any documentation?
- travisjungroth 4y ago> Can you do Z (or figure out how)? Will you do Z? You've replaced one problem with one just as hard! Predicting how people will behave is no easy feat.
- pwdisswordfish9 4y agoIt's not really a call to predict anything. If you're hiring some who you're going to need to mop the store, and during the interview you make it clear that they're going to need to mop the store, and you ask them if they will mop the store, and it turns out that they don't mop the store, that's considered a sufficient reason to get rid of them. Having an explicit discussion on the topic of "Will you do this thing that we expect you to do?" means that (a) the interview tracks what actual day-to-day expectations are, and (b) if they don't do the thing, there's no need to feel awkward about wanting to not keep them around after promising something and failing to follow through on it.