職場中完美員工真的存在嗎

Don’t hire based on skills alone.

員工招聘不能只看技能。

In the early days of PureWow, I always thought you needed to find the perfect employee on paper. I couldn’t have been more wrong. I quickly learned that you can often teach employees new skills, but you can’t teach them how to fit the company culture. If an employee doesn’t fit the mold initially, they most likely never will. This could force them to quit, or worse, frustrate other employees.

在PureWow發展初期，我總想找到理論上存在的完美員工。但這種想法大錯特錯。我很快就認識到，你可以教會員工新技能，但無法教會他們如何融入公司文化。如果一名員工在最開始難以融入公司，他可能永遠也無法做到。這將迫使他們辭職，更糟的是，令其他員工也士氣低落。

It didn’t take us long to realize how much more fun (and productive) work is when people enjoy their work environment. We encourage our team to constantly communicate at PureWow: ask questions if you don’t understand something, cc or bcc your manager for visibility on emails, and let your colleagues know what you’re working on. Those who don’t like to share and prefer to work in silos won’t do well at our company. However, this wasn’t always the case, it took time for us to clearly define the company culture we wanted to create.

我們很輕易便能發現，當人們熱愛自己所處的工作環境時，工作會變得更加有趣（和高效）。在PureWow，我們鼓勵團隊經常進行溝通：遇到不理解的事情可以提出問題，在電子郵件中抄送或密送給你的上司，讓你的同事知道你在忙什麼。那些不喜歡分享而願意單幹的人，在我們公司不可能有好的表現。當然，我們並非從一開始便如此，我們花了很長時間才確定希望創建哪種公司文化。

Now, I’m not saying you don’t need to look for skills — of course you do. But hiring smart people that also happen to fit your company culture is what you should strive for. EQ is more important than IQ. In every interview we conduct at PureWow — from tech to edit, and even sales — we ask our employees to consider some of the following questions before hiring anyone: do I want to regularly communicate with this individual? do they have a great work ethic? how do they react during stressful situations?

當然，我的意思並不是說你不需要考慮求職者的技能——招聘當然要看能力。但聘用那些恰好契合公司文化的聰明人，纔是你要追求的目標。情商比智商更重要。PureWow進行每一次面試時，我們都會要求員工，無論是技術人員、編輯，還是銷售，考慮下面幾個問題，然後才決定結果：我是否想定期與這個人交流？他們是否有良好的職業道德？他們在壓力下會有什麼反應？

Brilliant ideas don’t make companies successful; the people who execute those ideas do. That’s why hiring is the single most important thing any company can do and it should be done with great care. It’s the CEO’s job to be the conductor of the orchestra; find the missing puzzle pieces. Seek out employees who complement the skills of those already employed – every company needs a devil’s advocate, right? And most of all, look for candidates who believe in your company’s vision and are more interested in growing the business than achieving individual success.

讓公司成功的並不是絕妙的想法；而是執行這些想法的人。所以，招聘對於任何公司來說都是最重要的事情，應該謹慎對待。CEO是公司的指揮者，要負責找到缺失的拼圖，找到那些能彌補現有團隊不足之處的員工——每一家公司都需要一名“魔鬼代言人”，不是嗎？最重要的是，要去尋找相信公司願景，並對公司發展而非個人成功更感興趣的人。