New York Times op-ed columnist, Thomas L. Friedman, wrote a column entitled, “How to Get a Job at Google.” He did not report that this is how to get a job anywhere.
His op-ed focused on an interview with Laszlo Bock, the senior vice president of people operations for Google. It pointed out that a high grade-point average is not a predictor of success.
Bock was quoted as saying, “…For every job, though, the No. 1 thing we look for is general cognitive ability, and it’s not I.Q. It’s learning ability. It’s the ability to process on the fly. It’s the ability to pull together disparate bits of information. We assess that using structured behavioral interviews that we validate to make sure they’re predictive.”
While Google has dubbed this learning ability – we have codified it through cognitive assessments of hundreds of executives, plus guiding the hiring of thousands more as Learning Agility. In fact, I focused a post on Learning Agility in November entitled, “How to Get Hired By Twitter – Or WalMart.”
I noted then that we have found that learning agility is the leading predictor of success – No. 1 above intelligence and education.
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