14 Hire Technical Managers

“Hey Susan, do you think we can ask the director candidate to facilitate a meeting?”

“We’d better. That’s one of the things he’s going to do. And, a one-on-one. If he doesn’t know how to do one, he’s not going to make it here.”—Managers getting ready to interview their director-level candidate

Now that you’ve applied all the ideas here for technical people, you may have a critical question: How do you apply these steps for technical managers? This chapter answers those questions.

Hiring technical managers requires similar steps, but a different approach from technical staff. That’s because managers perform work that is quite different from the work performed by technical staff members. Managers work across the organization ...

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