Attract Diverse Types of Talent

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If you want a diverse range of people you're not going to get them from copying the same perks or the same culture that every single other company has deployed within their organization. I met so many really talented ambitious people at that company who had just such a different set of experiences in life But there was this undercurrent of these were the people looking at the world differently and looking to do things differently because There was a big barrier to finding a fully remote position.

It's human nature to worry about the things that can go wrong.

But often overlooked is the mentality of attraction instead of detraction, or in other words focusing on what you can bring to the table instead of what you can prevent from happening.

While so many companies signal they want entrepreneurial candidates yet don't allow side projects, want out of the box thinkers yet expect them to work in a box (office), and vow they only hire top talent yet pay below market rate... there's power in thinking through whether you're truly focusing on attracting the right people or just trying to prevent wrong behavior.

In this episode, Steph and Cal discuss the mentality of being a magnet instead of a jail, originally inspired by this tweet of Steph's.