CEO Hires Candidate With Two-Line CV, World Pretends This Isn’t Crazy
KEY POINTS
- •Entrepreneur Steven Bartlett recounted on LinkedIn how he hired a candidate with a two-line CV and zero experience after she aced his culture survey.
- •The candidate impressed by teaching herself interview answers post-facto and personally thanking the security guard on arrival.
- •Bartlett highlighted that ambition and character are harder to teach than systems, while Matt Grimm dismissed thank-you emails as irrelevant, stirring debate.
Steven Bartlett, founder of 'The Diary of a CEO' and cofounder of Flight Story and Thirdweb, gambled on a candidate whose résumé was so minimal it could fit on a Post-it, boasting zero experience but maxing out his culture survey. This genius acknowledged she didn’t know an interview answer, then hacked her brain overnight and followed up like a historian chasing a lead, plus she personally thanked the security guard on arrival. Bartlett said training skills is a month’s work; fitting ambition and decency into a human? Priceless. Meanwhile, Matt Grimm from Anduril dismissed such gratitude emails as 'completely irrelevant,' sparking internet etiquette wars worthy of 2025.
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Why hire experience when you can just win friends by thanking the security guard? Bartlett’s hiring tips remind us all that politeness is the real credential we missed.
Steven Bartlett’s hiring hack: skip the skills, just master thank-you notes and security guard greetings. HR’s new religion.
Hiring based on culture fit and charm over resume stats sounds great until everyone just bribes the receptionist.
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 1/1/2026 | Author: Polly Thompson
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