{"id":3578,"date":"2015-03-11T11:00:04","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T07:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/?p=3578"},"modified":"2015-03-11T13:19:10","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T09:19:10","slug":"mark-zuckerberg-i-would-only-hire-someone-to-work-for-me-if-i-would-work-for-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/mark-zuckerberg-i-would-only-hire-someone-to-work-for-me-if-i-would-work-for-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg: I Would Only Hire Someone to Work For Me If I Would Work For Them"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When it comes to onboarding new employees with whom he\u2019ll work directly, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg bears in mind a single guiding principle that he says has never steered him wrong.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will only hire someone to work directly for me if I would work for that person,\u201d Zuckerberg told an audience gathered in Barcelona yesterday for the fourth installment of \u2018Q&A with Mark,\u2019 an ongoing series of town hall-style discussions.<\/p>\n

While employers generally have more work to do than staffers to get it done, Zuckerberg says business owners should resist the urge to settle for lesser candidates in the name of manpower. \u201cOver the long term,\u201d he said, \u201cyou\u2019re only going to be better if you get someone really good.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sherly Sandberg is the perfect example of the kind of employee that, in an alternate universe, Zuckerberg says he would be happy to serve. Rather than mentors outside of the company, he said, the most influential figures in his life are the colleagues he sees on a day-to-day basis. \u201cSheryl would be at the top of that list,\u201d he noted, adding that she is largely responsible for the fact that 2 million businesses advertise on Facebook today.<\/p>\n

If selecting candidates is one thing, attracting them is another. The key to wooing top talent, Zuckerberg said, is \u201cjust being upfront about what you stand for.\u201d Facebook, for instance, is bullish on its mission to connect the world — which he acknowledges isn\u2019t a value or priority shared by everyone.<\/p>\n

And finally, Zuckerberg had some wisdom to share in the realm of delegation. His management style, he says, is fairly flexible. \u201c[Employees] need the ability to fully exercise all their creativity and all their capacity, or else they\u2019re not going to be having the biggest impact that they can have on the world, and they\u2019re going to want to go do something else.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the same time, Zuckerberg has always striven to keep a streamlined team and to do as much work as possible himself. Facebook serves over a billion people, for instance, but counts a team of fewer than 10,000. \u201cMy first move when I was building Facebook wasn\u2019t to hire a team of engineers to go build a product,\u201d he explained. \u201cI generally each step along the way have tried to do as much as I can myself.”<\/p>\nSource<\/a>\n

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