9 key features to be hired in a start-up

An article recently published in Mashable has asked different founders of start-ups on the characteristics seeking in candidates who are interviewed. First of all, they make it clear that lifestyle that entails working in these companies is not for everyone. And, in the same way, not everyone is able to work in this field.

 

The nine qualities that are sought are:

1. passion and motivation: must believe in the start-up and its mission and be prepared to be advised, learn and make your own way.

2. Curiosity: looking for people who want to innovate, but also acting.

3. Speed, attitude and skill: you can always hire people, shape it and become experts and act efficiently. Difficult, as it admits the CEO of Rosie Nick Nickitas, is finding people with these three features and help to build great products and provide satisfaction to customers every day.

4. Audacity: looking for leaders, capable of making decisions.

5. Desire to learn and ability to sacrifice: the really interesting candidates ask for more responsibilities and are flushed in learning something new.

6. Sense of humor and cultural background: recruiters believe that skills are acquired, so it is contracted mainly by knowledge. As explains Ken Deckinger, co-founder and CEO of Jesus, Meet Ken, "people that home, they have not only to think that my jokes are bad, they have to be able to have one even worse than mine. Do it and you'll be part of my team."

7. Impact: more top people should be fun, passionate and ambitious, they must have a desire to change the lives of others.

8. Flexibility: the environment of start-ups is characterized by its great dynamism, so it is looking for candidates with very different skills.

9. Without fear: is that the best employees are independent and do not need to be monitored on an ongoing basis. But, at the same time, have no fear of asking questions, be humble and admit that they comment errors, something usual in this type of companies.