tech

The Bottle-of-Wine Test for Hiring

..mostly what I am looking for is passion. A story. A flicker in the eye. A light. I want to see a light! I want to see confidence, and I also want to see vulnerability.
 
I ask some questions that really get stories out of people. Something as simple as “Who are you?” can be answered in myriad ways. I always ask “What did your parents teach you?” It’s a passage into a candidate’s past and usually the answer’s nothing you’d read on a CV or on LinkedIn.

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8 Qualities of Remarkable Employees

Great employees are reliable, dependable, proactive, diligent, great leaders, and great followers. They possess a wide range of easily defined but hard to find qualities.
 
A few hit the next level. Some employees are remarkable, possessing qualities that may not appear on performance appraisals but nonetheless make a major impact on performance.
 
Here are eight qualities of remarkable employees:

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– via inc.com

Meet Andrew Cullen – Product Designer at InVision App

Hard work and passion can get you a long way in our industry. We’re very fortunate that as long as you have a computer and an internet connection then you have the opportunity to do something great. Take every opportunity you get to improve yourself and learn new skills.

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– via sketchappsources.com

Entrepreneurship

An idea is not a design
A design is not a prototype
A prototype is not a program
A program is not a product
A product is not a business
A business is not profits
Profits are not an exit
And an exit is not happiness.

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– via quora.com

User Experience: definitions and features

True user experience goes far beyond giving customers what they say they want, or providing checklist features. In order to achieve high-quality user experience in a company’s offerings there must be a seamless merging of the services of multiple disciplines, including engineering, marketing, graphical and industrial design, and interface design.

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– via tubikstudio.com