Hire only those who are better than you, e don't look at the resume. These are just two of the maxims that regulate the hiring of one of the most dreamed of jobs by young people from all over the world, the company that has been leading the ranking of the best employers in the United States for years and which occupies a special place in our imagination : Google.
To reveal the secrets of the hiring of the Mountain View giant is Laszlo Bock, head of Google's "People operations", in a book, "Rules Works!", which tells the company's hiring methods and the rules that determine it. A method that dispels the myth of the curriculum and the need to have attended a high level faculty in a prestigious university, but opens up to human ability and inventiveness.
What matters, more than previous experience, not just work, is, in fact, the ability to respond to simulations of real life and the work that awaits the different candidates, faced with terribly demanding and competitive selections.
No traditional interviews, but only work situations and evaluation of candidates' reactions to difficulties, in a weeks-long selection process that transversely involves the Mountain View company, from employees up to chief executive Larry Page, who often has the final word on hiring.
A technological revolution that therefore seems to start from a human revolution (but perhaps it would be more correct to say restoration), from the search for a general staff more than a specialist, capable of choosing and above all of innovating, finding the hidden paths in every established path.
