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Deal With the Brilliant Jerks You Work With

posted by Dopefish on Friday February 28 2014, @07:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the stupid-is-as-stupid-does dept.

AnonTechie writes "In business, intelligence is always a critical element in any employee, because what we do is difficult and complex and the competitors are filled with extremely smart people. However, intelligence isn't the only important quality. Being effective in a company also means working hard, being reliable, and being an excellent member of the team. Companies where people with diverse backgrounds and work styles can succeed have significant advantages in recruiting and retaining top talent over those that don't."

 
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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by TheRaven on Friday February 28 2014, @02:20PM

    by TheRaven (270) on Friday February 28 2014, @02:20PM (#8502) Journal
    That's only a problem if the people responsible for the hiring are not the people who will be the colleagues of the person being hired. And if that's the case, then you've got a pretty strong indication that the organisation is in trouble even before you go there and meet the jerks: you can tell when they interview you. If you go through the hiring process only talking to managers, and the people who'd be expected to work with you don't have the final say, then run away.
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  • (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Friday February 28 2014, @03:34PM

    by Thexalon (636) on Friday February 28 2014, @03:34PM (#8550)

    I've seen organizations in which the prospective employee's would-be boss has absolutely no say in whether somebody is hired. Heck, I've been in that exact position: the CEO of a startup I was working for hired his drinking buddy, came in the next day and told me "Guess what? You have a new person in your department. He's arriving in 30 minutes." (Leaving me minimal time to scrounge up a computer for him to use.) The employee in question not only had no skills in the job the CEO had hired him to do, he had never claimed to have those skills.

    Needless to say, I'd already begun making plans to move on from that company.

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