Google’s Senior Vice President of People has some stuff to say about what they value in the people they recruit:
“test scores are worthless. … we found that they don’t predict anything.”
Google hires about 5,000 new staff and receives over 1-million CVs each year, and, for them, it’s all about learning ability, leadership, ownership and humility.
It’s not about what you know. It’s about your approach to what you don’t.
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