1229 AM 42 Strategic Hiring at Skookum Digital Works Founde

12:29 AM @ 42%.- Strategic Hiring at Skookum Digital Works Founded in 2006, Skookum Digital Works is a technology development company whose products include mobile apps, business software, and hardware for Internet-connected uses. Its co-owners, James Hartsell and Bryan Delaney, have a strategy to grow while maintaining the company\'s distinctiveness. They don\'t want to do good work and design basic websites They want to do great work and become the preferred partner of top companies aiming to achieve strategic goals through innovation. Hartsell points out that a company with the best people can do the best work, delivering more value to clients and thus enjoying better profit margins To that end, as the company\'s headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina, has grown, Hartsell and Delaney opened another location in Denver. With just 50 emplovees in Charlotte and fewer than 20 in Denver, the company can serve clients with the best talent living in or attracted to both locations. Delaney says he envisions up to 100 employees being able to collaborate well in one office, after which the company needs to open more offices, rather than keep growing in that location. Collaboration is important to Skookum\'s focus on building solutions, a process it kicks off with teams brainstorming ideas together

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Ans1: While hiring a person with similar choices,interests and personalities, the founders might have rejected someone more suitable and competent applicant and subsequently faced legal action for discrimination on ground of age, race or ethnicity. They might also have ended up hiring an otherwise incapable fellow, who might prompt the existing talented workers to take legal recourse against the company, frustrated by working with him /her.

To avoid such situations, the values and cultural assimilation should be one of the factors determining suitability of a candidate along with many others like education, relevant work experience, track record, psychometric evaluation, technical compatibility to name a few. This will help the founders to defend their decision well if challenged.

Ans 2: According to the company\'s strategy, the suitable talent must have an aptitude for innovation, hard work, customer focus, progressive and growth oriented approach besides technical competence . The incumbent should also be culturally sensitive and should be driven by ethics, besides showing strong assimilation with the values of the organisation.