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I can't stop thinking about this. Anjuan lays out great abstractions and how he applied them for an unprecedented and surprise situation. @anjuan/1342143344076615682Permalink
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How many management job requirements included "has managed during a pandemic"? It would be absurd to require that before the pandemic and I bet during the pandemic no one has added that to their job requirements spec.
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Yet, this category of requirement is listed so often at companies of all sizes, stages, markets, and situations. This category boils down to trying to hire people who already are doing (lateral move) or have already done (downward move) the type of work you expect to be donePermalink
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Instead, please focus on transferrable skills and abilities. Those show potential to work in your company's current situation and in your unknowable future situations.Permalink
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Anjuan didn't need to have already managed in a pandemic to effectively manage in a pandemic. He had the ability to do it. And if you enforce hyper-specific requirements you risk hiring people who can't adapt and not hiring people like Anjuan.Permalink
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That said, sometimes you do need something hyper-specific, like when the government needed COBOL engineers IMMEDIATELY. That's generally the only time to be hyper-specific: when there is an immediate need.Permalink