Head of Talent Acquisition at EyCrowd, Matt Bonitt, shares how he ended up at EyCrowd and how their unique work culture cemented his decision to stay. We find out what recruitment policies Matt found in place when he arrived at the company, and what he chose to focus on as his first orders of business. EyCrowd prioritizes aptitude and attitude over skill and Matt gives us examples of the character traits he is looking for in prospective employees. You’ll get a close look at his interview process as he tells us of the most difficult aspects of hiring executives. For Matt, it’s all relationship-based and his interview format is loose and almost informal, to put the interviewee at ease so that they can feel comfortable enough to portray their true selves.
Key Points From This Episode:
- Introducing our guest, Matt Bonitt and his guitar-themed room.
- Matt’s professional background and how he ended up at EyCrowd.
- What EyCrowd, as a business, does.
- The state of EyCrowd’s recruitment policy when Matt joined the company.
- What he prioritized as the first points of business in his new position as Head TA.
- EyCrowd as a remote-work organization.
- An exercise in company culture when determining prospective employee characteristics.
- Examples of character traits that Matt is looking for when hiring: humility is number one.
- Exploring the finer details of his interview process.
- Having a loose interview structure to put the interviewee at ease.
- Whether the current means of assessment in the interview process is fundamentally flawed.
- The possibility of replicating paired coding for other functions.
- Matt’s background in interviewing and hiring executives.
- Searching for and placing executives: a relationship-based game.
- What the most difficult part about looking for executives to hire is.
- How executives are able to skip the interview process entirely.
- Matt’s future career prospects.
Tweetables:
“I love the people aspect but I was a little bit getting sick of the corporate structure.” — Matt Bonitt [0:02:24]
“You don’t have to speak formally to be professional, you can just be real with people.” — Matt Bonitt [0:02:33]
“We place aptitude and attitude over skill. We have an excellent training and development program so we just want smart people with good hearts.” — Matt Bonitt [0:04:54]
“It’s a very nerve-wracking situation when you're going in an interview with somebody. So, one way that I augmented that was telling them all the questions I’m going to ask them upfront, and not having them answer them right away.” — Matt Bonitt [0:08:50]
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