The hiring secrets of top CEOs

Every company, especially a large one, makes every effort to recruit the cream of the crop. However, even a skilled sourcer will experience problems hunting for the right applicant with whom the company will achieve short-term and long-term goals.

Sometimes companies’ CEOs successfully turn into recruiters and win trophies, i.e. outstanding candidates. But how do they succeed? What’s the point? Let’s see how world-famous bosses reveal their recruiting secrets.

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO

One of the youngest billionaires believes that candidates’ attitude toward their work matters more than their skills.

“”I can’t institutionally believe that experience is that important, or else I would have a hard time reconciling myself and the company,” Mark Zuckerberg told Y  Combinator, a Silicon Valley startup incubator. Instead, “We invest in people who we think are just really talented, even if they haven’t done that thing before.”

 

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