In the New York Times, Thomas L. Friedman writes about “How to get a job at Google.” Friedman reports that Laszlo Bock, the senior vice president of people operations at Google said something that Friedman found very interesting. Google determined that “GPA’s are worthless as a criterion for hiring, and test scores are worthless…We found that they don’t predict anything.”
So what does Google look for. “There are five hiring attributes we have across the company.” The No. 1 thing Google looks for is “learning ability. It’s the ability to process on the fly. It’s the ability to pull together disparate hits of information. We assess that using structured behavioral interviews that we validate to make sure they’re predictive.” Lominger would call that attribute Learning Agility.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/23/opinion/sunday/friedman-how-to-get-a-job-at-google.html?_r=0
Lominger offers two solutions that can help your organization find people with Learning Agility as part of the hiring process or among people already in your organization:
- viaEDGE – this is an internet based self-assessment on Learning Agility
- Learning From Experience – a set of structured behavioral interview questions
Contact us to learn more.