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Click Your Fortune #3: Top interview question - Jennifer Indovina

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    What's one interview question
    you ask every prospective employee?
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    I'm fortunate that
    a bunch of my founding team
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    is still with me,
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    and we were friends off the bat
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    so we can be very comfortable
    with each other.
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    So, I'd say the first question
    I ask is actually,
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    "Tell me your story."
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    It may seem pretty simple,
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    but really what I'm looking for
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    is creativity,
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    honesty,
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    and probably the most
    important characteristic
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    that no one ever talks about
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    is sense of humor.
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    If you can't roll with
    my existing team
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    and laugh at
    the same jokes as us
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    and get it done at
    the same pace as us,
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    then you can't
    contribute to the team,
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    and that would be
    horrible for you, you know?
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    You don't want to be
    in an environment
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    where you don't really feel
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    like you're a part of the family.
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    So, I start from there.
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    What's your story?
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    Who are you?
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    Click any of these
    fortune cookies to see
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    your questions and
    follow-up questions explored.
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    and see what this series
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    or click this cookie to suggest
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    alternative questions,
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Title:
Click Your Fortune #3: Top interview question - Jennifer Indovina
Description:

Why are comments off? We're definitely looking for feedback on this series demo! However, the interactive nature of the demo makes it difficult to review comments across all of the short, annotated videos. To consolidate the conversation, we ask that you give us feedback on the three introduction videos. Thanks!

Click Your Fortune is an interactive, choose-your-own-adventure style series that literally feeds questions from students to knowledgeable experts around the world. This intro video explains it all: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/click-your-fortune-episode-3

This episode features the professionals listed below answering dozens of questions submitted by students from all over the world. Got a burning question? A hero you'd like to see interviewed? A career you would like to see explored? Suggest and vote up ideas for future click your fortune videos here: https://community.ed.ted.com/teded/topics/suggest_questions_careers_and_people_for_the_next_click_your_fortune_episode

Francis de los Reyes III: Professor, Environmental Engineering, North Carolina State University
Deena Gornick: Executive Coach
Jennifer Indovina: TED Fellow; CEO, Tenrehte Technologies
Daniel Suarez: TED Speaker; Author; Senior Systems Analyst
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Video Language:
English
Team:
closed TED
Project:
TED-Ed
Duration:
01:17

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