Hiring Good People

For the past two weeks I’ve been working with our team at iliketotallyloveit.com looking for the right programmer.  We’ve had  two simple goals.

1. Create a document to give any possible candidate a clear vision of our needs. I’m a huge fan of no surprises.
2. Compile a list of possible candidates that we’d like to interview.

Then late last night, while I was searching for a podcast I once listened to about  how large merchants like Modell’s have implementated the longtail philosophy, I found these two gems by the co-founder of 37 Signals Jason Fried speaking at Loyala University in Chicago.

He describes exactly what we are actually doing.  Perhaps it’s because I’ve read Getting Real when it came out and it seeped into my unconscious.