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So add more details. If you actually have a fun and diverse team, you should have some stories, right? So tell them! "We love to hear S's stories about growi
by PebblesRox 13y ago
So add more details. If you actually have a fun and diverse team, you should have some stories, right? So tell them!
"We love to hear S's stories about growing up in France."
"W has the yummiest recipes to share."
"One time we were struggling with this issue and J had this insight that we never would have thought of because we were so used to looking at it from such-and-such perspective."
"At lunch last week, D taught us this great game she used to play as a kid; we've been having so much fun with it since then and P told us it reminded him of this other game so now they're working on remix together and they won't tell us anything about it until it's done."
I was in an interview yesterday and my interviewers were telling me about how they bring their kids in to the office sometimes, and how they have tomato plants growing on the roof and how they take Good Friday off because "I grew up Roman Catholic, so it's a holy day for me. I need it to bake cookies!" Those kinds of things don't appeal to everyone of course, but they're right up my alley. They made me even more interested in the job than before.
- falcolas 13y agoThis seems to fall victim to the same "sin" as the original post - calling out the women in a way which could be easily misconstrued as a Playboy centerfold biography.
- PebblesRox 13y agoI didn't mean to give the impression that all the stories would be about women. I think it would work best if you had several stories about a variety of people; the goal is to illustrate the diversity you have instead of going with the banal "we value diversity" claim with nothing to back it up. Of course having a team that actually is fun and diverse is a prerequisite to this strategy.