CEO reveals his unconventional hiring strategy for building entire executive teams
“That's always, like, a a good insight for me.”
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something that I'm personally quite proud of and probably will also continue doing this. I hired the entire exec team myself, and most of them just by reaching out on LinkedIn.
What's your favorite question to ask someone in an interview?
That is a tough question. I mean, typically, I ask them, how do they picture the future? Because then I get an understanding, you know, where they would like to be in the future. And then I can see if that fits with our strategy. I typically ask them where are they really terrible at. Yeah. That's always, like, a a good insight for me.
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Upvest CEO Martin Kassing shares how he personally hired his entire executive team primarily through LinkedIn outreach. He reveals his go-to interview questions that help assess cultural fit and self-awareness: asking candidates about their future vision and what they're terrible at.
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Provides actionable hiring insights from a successful CEO who built his leadership team through direct, unconventional methods.
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