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We both find during interviews that “downtime-revealed preferences” are more interesting than “stories about your prior jobs.”

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Find out their wins above replacement. Through the stories they tell, look to see if the end result of the thing they did would have been significantly worse without their involvement. Try to separate their actions from those of their team or the circumstance. This quality should both highlight their talents and their sense of agency and individua

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