Elizabeth Gore has hired and interviewed “hundreds of people,” she says.
Gore worked at the United Nations Foundation then Dell helping entrepreneurs around the world build their businesses. In 2017, she co-founded Hello Alice, a platform helping entrepreneurs gain “access to capital like grants, loans, credit,” she says, and connecting them with a network of like entrepreneurs.
When it comes to finding the right candidates during job interviews, she loves asking questions like, “what do you think we’re doing wrong at our company?” as a way to gauge what they can bring to the table, she says. She also pays attention to what turns her off.
Here are two of her biggest red flags.
Candidates who don’t think beyond the job description
Gore’s No. 1 red flag is seeing that a candidate is focused solely on what’s in the job description. It’s fine to think about that list of tasks, “but how are they going to go beyond it?” she says.
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