I’ve spent the last 4 years rapidly hiring people on my team between Nepal, Kenya, and the UK. I’ve sent more disqualification emails than I would like and reviewed way too many applications. This is by all means not an exhaustive list but it’s some of the ones I wish that people would really latch onto.

These are mostly in order of the application pipeline (simply: apply, screen, interview).

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1. Capitalize your I’s! Please! If you’re not used to it, download Grammarly to support you. This is usually the first reason for a disqualification email.
2. If there are optional questions, do…

The article, from Forbes, that he included was very helpful and it stated:

No one communication style is inherently better than another. But picking the wrong style for a particular audience, whether it’s one person or a thousand, shuts down listening and can spell trouble. Learning to build flexibility around your preferred style allows others to more successfully hear the important things you need to communicate.

Not sure how you communicate? Start here with a communication styles assessment included in the blog. Or, you can start with your personality test, start here, which includes a section specifically on communication styles…

The entire mind set [of entitlement] pits someone against other people. When people think that they should have everything they want — often for nothing — it comes at the cost of relationships with others and, ultimately, their own happiness.

Entitlement is real, read more here. I’ve found myself in the same mindset and it is a constant battle, at my last job, after coming back from a consulting trip around the world with some very fine businesses and coached by some world-class leaders. I knew I was a leader, I had proven myself time and time again that I…

Relationships are an artwork and most of us didn’t get any training on how to paint. Much of how we’ve learn to interact with people, respond to situations and have conversations are learned from our parents. How much they interacted with you [or didn’t] taught you how to interact with others. This starts to change as you move out of the house or go through coaching, but it’s tough to change.

Where I work, at CloudFactory, one of our values is speaking truth and life. It’s part of our culture code. In general, truth is sometimes hard and tough to…