People who are so creative that they create their own jobs won't work for Google or anyone else. If they're really good, they won't be employees.
yrs, andreas www.andreas.com----- Original Message ----- From: "John McCreery" <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2007 5:27 AM Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Google Job Interview Questions
On 9/16/07, Andreas Ramos <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:The purpose of an interview is to find out if the candidate is appropriatefor the company and the job. That she has been invited to the interview already shows she is capable of doing the job: that was the point of reviewing the resume to see if she was qualified.Andreas, You are way behind the curve on the latest management thinking. The idea that an interview is to find out if a candidate is qualified for a job assumes a job definition. What Google is looking for isn't people who fit job definitions but, instead, people who may be able to do jobs not yet conceived of, jobs that they themselves may create. Cheers, John -- John McCreery The Word Works, Ltd., Yokohama, JAPAN Tel. +81-45-314-9324 http://www.wordworks.jp/
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