#12 - How Google Hires

In this episode, we talk to Lisa Stern Haynes, a longtime member of the recruiting team at Google, about how Google does staffing. Hiring (and keeping) exceptional talent is never easy, but there are ways to structure how you screen, interview, and assess candidates to help you make better decisions. Lisa offers 5 tips that any organization can adopt to make for better hiring: 1. Be consistent and open mind when reviewing resumes 2. You’re probably not as good at interviewing as you think you are 3. Make hiring decisions by consensus 4. Make hiring part of everyone’s job 5. Work to make a great candidate experience Join us as we discuss Google’s deliberate and thorough process to research, design and develop a successful approach. Guest - Lisa Stern Haynes, Staffing Lead, Google: Lisa Stern Haynes is a Staffing Lead at Google with many years of experience and practical knowledge on how Google does staffing. Having originally joined Google back in 2006 as a Recruiting Coordinator for the sales organization, Lisa has been part of the same team for over a decade, something that is pretty atypical in Google. Today, she is a Staffing Lead overseeing the overall hiring strategy for the US Ad Agency sales team and the Global Hardware Partnerships team. Host: Alex Langshur