{"id":1960,"date":"2009-03-17T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T19:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2009\/03\/get-the-culture-right\/"},"modified":"2009-03-26T16:36:56","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T21:36:56","slug":"get-the-culture-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2009\/03\/get-the-culture-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Get The Culture Right&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>everything else falls into place.<br \/>\n-Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now that is an interesting position, isn\u2019t it?\u00a0 The article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hreonline.com\/HRE\/story.jsp?storyId=186699595\" target=\"_blank\">is from Human Resource Executive online<\/a> and features a brief look at Mr. Hsieh\u2019s \u201cunorthodox\u201d HR strategy.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We do two [job] interviews &#8212; the first for skills and the second for cultural fit,&#8221; he said, adding that the company has opted to not hire many talented candidates and has fired employees because they didn&#8217;t fit the culture or weren&#8217;t passionate enough about customer service.<\/p>\n<p>Fifty percent of the company&#8217;s performance review focuses on culture fit, he said.<\/p>\n<p>To ensure employees are committed to Zappos&#8217; core values, it offers new hires $2,000 to leave the company.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now <em>that<\/em> is commitment to the culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>everything else falls into place. -Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com Now that is an interesting position, isn\u2019t it?\u00a0 The article is from Human Resource Executive online and features a brief look at Mr. Hsieh\u2019s \u201cunorthodox\u201d HR strategy. &#8220;We do two [job] interviews &#8212; the first for skills and the second for cultural fit,&#8221; he said, adding that the company has opted to not hire many talented candidates and has fired employees because they didn&#8217;t fit the culture or weren&#8217;t passionate enough about customer service. Fifty percent of the company&#8217;s performance review focuses on culture fit, he said. To ensure employees are committed to Zappos&#8217; core values, it offers new hires&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2009\/03\/get-the-culture-right\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,23],"tags":[535,1265,1267,1266,1748,1269,1268],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-vC","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1960"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1962,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960\/revisions\/1962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->