Comments on: What Derrick Locke Can Teach You About Hiring Good People

By: Brad

Brad — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:40:27 +0000

John: It’s painfully honest YOU don’t know what you’re talking about. A snippet from an article:

In late September, Hugo football coach Tommy Bare received a photo of Locke decked out in Wildcat blue. With it, came a letter.

Dear Coach Bare,

We are very happy with Derrick. He is a solid young man and I am proud that he is in a Kentucky uniform. I want to thank you for your part in developing this boy into a young man.

Sincerely,

Rich Brooks, Head Football Coach

http://newsok.com/article/3151524/1192769775?pg=3

He endured adversity with his mom’s incarceration and other things–and EARNED his spot on the roster—the hard way. Takes humility. Perhaps you could use a dose.

By: john

john — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:49:30 +0000

nobody knows the real derreck locke if they knew what he was like in high school and how he treated people nobody would like him and thats a fact!

By: Lord

Lord — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:25:53 +0000

The problem is this caters to the entrepreneurs worst instinct – to hire themselves, when what they most need is to hire those that complement themselves. They don’t need cheerleaders, they need truthtellers, they don’t need visionaries, they need detail workers, they don’t need ego strokers, they need diligent workers.

By: Mike DeWitt

Mike DeWitt — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 01:49:06 +0000

Lord, I respectfully disagree with your assessment of the assessability of passion. For years I interviewed college grads for entry level positions, and you could DEFINITELY tell the ones who had the passion Rob was talking about. And they went on to become stars in each case. And they weren’t academic stars in most cases.

Mike

By: Lord

Lord — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:51:00 +0000

While passion is desirable, it can be a mistake to expect it in a candidate. What do they really know of your company, your product, your work, or yourself? Few work in such public arenas as football. Rather than passion itself, it is really the ability to become passionate about it and that is much harder to determine in advance. Passion is subject of feigning and a false read and potentially more misleading than instilling. Adaptability and intelligence are probably superior indications of passion than mere desire.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:24:17 +0000

Rob,

Hopefully this type of thinking will accelerate in adoption!

Mike

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:15:11 +0000

As someone who has been(still frequently is) on the other side of the job hunting problem, how exactly do I get someone like you to realize that I’m “highly motivated by desire”? I mean, the resume is the first thing you see, and between the padders, outright liars, and people whose credentials are much better than their ability, how do you sort out that one person who will code their way to greatness?