Puri: Paid work tests assess talent better than traditional interviews
Shaan Puri · CEO Lessons: Bulls**t Mission Statements, Firing People & Saying ‘NO' (#505) · Oct 10, 2023 · at 22:33
Shaan Puri, entrepreneur and podcast co-host, discusses practical hiring frameworks and why he replaced conversational interviews with paid simulation assignments.
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“I'll spend three, four hours creating a paid test, so I create a doc that's, here's a brief, and I'll say, I'm gonna pay you, and depending on the role, it might be 200 bucks, it might be 2000 dollars. I'll pay you to spend a day on this because I want to see what you do, because I just wrote words equal lies. It's like, I don't really, I'd rather just see your work than hear you tell me that you're good at work. And so paid tests is, now I lean towards that. In the end, that saved me a ton of time.”
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