Just woke up its 5:30am – last week was another incredible week for FireScope, I spent the majority of my week interviewing candidates to join our revolutionary company. A few months back I had read a book called Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by Jim Collins – great read about why companies succeed and fail. My take away was it was all about great people, not good, but truly great people. So my mission last week was to find some great people for FireScope – not an easy task.
The candidates I interviewed are really talented and have had a great track record developing, selling or marketing for other software companies. FireScope’s challenge, find the right candidates with great experience and passion, candidates willing to re-think about how IT operations and BSM tools have historically been delivered to the customer – proprietary framework vs. an open framework leveraging Web 2.0, Mash-Up’s, AJAX etc. Technologies that enable the customer to easily implement a BSM solution that aligns to their business without complicated licensing that historically has been a big compliant of customers. FireScope has grown fast due to our great people who are passionate about technology, and how technology can be used by our customers to simplify their businesses. To fuel our future growth we need more great passionate people…..
I spent half of my time last week, interviewing this candidate and that candidate, listening to them talk about their past accomplishments, what they are passionate about in work and in life, why they will make a difference at FireScope. With ever approaching interview, I would get excited that this is going to be the one, the one candidate that stands out above the rest. Well after a dozen 1 ½ hour plus interviews, I have a single candidate that I think will be a good fit. So why is this candidate different than the rest of the talented individuals that I interviewed? Well this individual possessed qualities we were looking for and three other qualities that are essential in fueling FireScope’s future growth:
1. Passion for life and work. They really believe they can make a difference for customers and they genuinely care about people.
2. Curious not just about FireScope, but in general. You could tell by the questions they asked – curiosity to me means they will seek to understand our customers in helping them with their IT and business challenges.
3. Opinion – they have an opinion. I mean they get engaged and tell you what they think or believe. Revolutions are started by free thinking and people who speak-up about a different path or a way of doing things – Our customers expect us to look for ways to make IT operations simpler. We need people who express fresh ideas about what that means.
Next week this candidate will visit with the rest of the team – I hope they will be as excited as I ‘am about this talented individual. More to come…..