10 powerful traits I look for when interviewing new talent: ⬇️
1. Curiosity
“Evolve and Adapt” is one of our core values. The disruptive world we live in cannot survive without intrinsic curiosity and seeking solutions to problems that didn’t exist a year ago.
2. Grit
This filters out 9 to 5 corporate workers who want to get a middle-level management job with minimum responsibility and forwarding emails all day.
3. Passion for learning
“Never Stop Learning” is the first core value that DevriX carved in stone (metaphorically speaking).
In an agency/consulting environment, our core strength lies in providing underused and highly leveraged solutions to problems that perform extremely well.
4. Productivity
Ever seen people who select text with the mouse, right click, look for “Copy”, then look for the right window to click, navigate to the textarea, right click and find “Paste”?
It takes under a second to copy-paste and swap windows.
This principle applies for everything in a day-to-day.
5. Multitasking
A contradictory one, but people reluctant to multitask tend to expect 1 task a day and spend all of the Aristotle time in the world to craft it from start to end.
Skilling up and scaling further entails parallel initiatives you need to juggle with daily.
6. Intrapreneurship
We often hire former founders or freelancers who suck at sales or finance management, but excel at other traits.
Understanding the premise of running a business is a great asset to an organization that can provide the missing pieces. It’s a win-win.
7. Flexibility
Yes, expert talent comes with requirements. And constraints.
But focusing 100% on these and pointing at job descriptions as the holy grail isn’t a recipe for success (unless your industry hasn’t moved the needle in the past century and it’s all robot work).
8. Creativity
Creative thinking and coming up with innovative approaches is what builds a strong culture of exceptional and groundbreaking results.
Even in traditional jobs like accounting or legal.
9. Collaboration
Teams evolve and grow together. While individual contributors can also excel, you can’t jeopardize the culture for one individual unit.
10. Results-driven mindset
It’s not about the journey – it’s the destination.
Yes, the journey should be easier, smoother, lighter – and we can work together on automating or optimizing the workflows.
But ROI-first is what counts at the end. Olympic athletes aren’t judged by their passion. The scorecard counts.
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