If You Don't Know What a Snooze Button is, - You're hired!

Odd question, but I think you should hire this person.

For half my life I did not understand the purpose of a snooze button. The best I could come up with was, it was a button that turned the alarm off temporarily, and reset it for ten minutes later. I knew that wasn't the whole answer because by itself, it did not make sense. It's not logical to wake yourself up so you could sleep for another ten minutes, unless you fell down a rabbit hole.

I knew the purpose of an alarm was to tell you when to get out of bed, not to inform you you had ten more minutes to sleep. An alarm is not a ten minute warning bell like the one at the concert telling you the break is over soon, so go to the bathroom fast. Here I am, many years later only to find out my first answer was the right answer and it still doesn't make any sense.

Things to think about when talking to snooze button candidates, 

1. Hitting a snooze button is asking for a deadline extension. Poor thing to admit to in an interview. This candidate is going to take up a lot of management time.
2. Snooze button people have deliberately engineered in a way of slowing down the process of getting out of bed. You don't want them bringing that kind of thinking to the workplace.
3. Getting out of bed is inevitable. Delaying the inevitable at work is dangerous.
4. People who really need the ten minutes are recovering from bad planning the night before. They're not going to set your team's performance on fire.
5. Snooze button people are not problem solvers. They've incorrectly concluded that nine minutes of interrupted sleep is going to make a difference. Wrong answer, - it won't.
6. There's a special nutty candidate who will set their alarm a half hour before they actually have to get out of bed, then hit the snooze button three times, - using up the half hour, and eventually getting up at the correct time! How ingenious. You're fired.

All things being equal, select the candidate who doesn't use a snooze button. You don't have time to manage the other kind. Most companies hire for competency, then fire for missing character traits. We've developed a web of interview questions designed to quickly uncover the human being in front of you. When you need the truth, let us ask the right questions. 

Join me on Jan. 18th for an exceptional workshop where I will teach you what questions to ask and what the answers mean. How you interview will change forever! 

See you for breakfast, 
Wolfgang 

p.s. Hiring an accountant. 
"When does two plus two equal five?"
"When they're really big two's."
"When can you start?"

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