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A warm welcome to today's AMA guest, @jakerr.eth 

Jake is currently helping Flashbots, Goldsky, and Conduit with their hiring. Before that, he was the in house Recruiter at Paradigm and has also helped hire for other top teams like Jump, 0x Labs, etc.

Reply with your questions for Jake here :)

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when looking at existing teams.

What do you look at to identify where to go in recruiting and whether a potential recruit then is a good fit for that specific team?

Developer 🤓 build, develop and operate Farcaster solutions @ dtech.vision also love tech, decentralization, fitness and oldschool rap 😎

If I understand your question correctly, you’re asking – how do you know which gaps you’re trying to fill on a team, and how do you then know if a person is a good fit to fill those gaps?

I make sure the interview plan will test for those skills, personality traits, and goals. Often, a sample work project is a good way to test for this – basically ‘we need someone who can do X’  – so give a candidate a task that enables them to demonstrate X.

I also try to give candidates context on what the team needs so they can make sure to highlight their strengths in those areas.

I try to understand the current state of the business/team, where they want to go, what they need to do in order to get there, and then identify the gaps that need to be filled in terms of skills, personality, and responsibilities/goals.