What type of employees does google look for

She's also found that natural curiosity is associated with higher job performance. There are many reasons why people who are naturally curious perform better at work. For one, you might not immediately know how to solve every obstacle that lands in your path.

Even people who went to top colleges, have enviable IQs and boast a robust set of skills get stuck. People with inquisitive minds ask questions and look at the problem from different perspectives.

That's what ultimately leads to the solution. Naturally curious people also love to learn, often exploring subjects and topics outside their area of expertise just for the fun of it. An innate curiosity drives them to dive into new subjects, topics and ideas. Warren Buffett reads pages a day. Bill Gates churns through an epic number of books each year. Mark Cuban's summer reading list included books about politics and behavioral economics. Want to stand out in the job market?

Try learning a skill that has nothing to do with your job title. Bock tells Quartz that Google always asks itself if candidates "bring something new and diverse in terms of perspective and life experience. That desire for diversity in understandable. The company used to be famous for asking cranium-crashing brainteasers , like "what is the probability of breaking a stick into three pieces and forming a triangle? Now, Google's interviews include questions about the candidate's concrete experiences, starting with queries like "give me an example of a time when you solved an analytically difficult problem.

By asking people to speak of their own experiences, Bock says, you get two kinds of information: "You get to see how they actually interacted in a real-world situation, and the valuable 'meta' information you get about the candidate is a sense of what they consider to be difficult.

Basic computer science skills will do, Bock says, since they signal "the ability to understand and apply information" and think in a formal, logical, and structured way. But there are options beyond CS. Bock says that taking statistics while he was in business school was "transformative" for his career. Because of this, job listings stay open longer at Google than you'd expect, he says — they have to kiss a lot of frogs before finding The One.

People who succeed there are sort of finely trained; they're conditioned to succeed in that environment," Bock says. While in school, people are trained to give specific answers. When Bock was explaining how to write resumes to Thomas Friedman at the Times, he said that most people miss that the formula for writing quality resumes is simple: " I accomplished X, relative to Y, by doing Z. But a stand-out resume would be more specific about their accomplishments and how they compared to others.

Bock gives a better example: "Had 50 op-eds published compared to average of 6 by most op-ed [writers] as a result of providing deep insight into the following area for three years.

With that sense of ownership, you'll feel responsible for the fate of a project, making you ready to solve any problem. But you also need to defer when other people have better ideas: "Your end goal," explained Bock, "is what can we do together to problem-solve. I've contributed my piece, and then I step back. You need "intellectual humility" to succeed at Google, he says. Success can become an obstacle, Bock says, since successful, Google-bound folks don't often experience failure.

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