Secrets of Marketing - #1 part III

• The third thing to look for is Initiative.
“Employees with initiative are needed, they are needed badly. They are needed in every business in America. They are needed because they find solutions for the problems pointed out by the merely ambitious. They are the glue that hold a business together.”
—Roy H. Williams

This skill is invaluable. A resume can show it, but only if the employee recognizes it as being important. Probe to find if your interviewee has initiative.

What To Look For:
• Try to discover what he/she has proposed without being asked
• How does he feel about putting forth an idea?
• Ask what steps she would take to get her idea accepted in a bureaucracy?
• Ask about planning and goal setting


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