A hiring manager's perspective on what we look for in a large growing technology company in our top performers.

1. Your Career – A hiring manager’s
perspective
Philip Reynolds, Feb 2015

2. Me!
 Graduate of DCU (BSc. Computer Applications)
 Ran a business 2001-2005
 Joined Workday in 2009
 2010 – Built & managed EMEA Technical Operations
 2013 – Moved to engineering
– Focused on Engineering our Cloud Infrastructure

3. Workday
 A leading provider of enterprise cloud applications, Workday delivers
financial management, human capital management, and analytics
applications designed for the world’s largest organizations.
 Aneel Bushri, CEO
 Dave Duffield, Chairman
 Headquartered in Pleasanton, CA with offices across North America,
EMEA and APAC
 Approximately 3,500 employees globally
 Workday acquired Cape Clear in 2008

4. Workday – Great place to work!
 “Top Technology Companies to Work for”, Great Rated - Great Place
to Work (#1 for large companies) [2014]
 Top Workplace, Bay Area News Group (#1 for large companies)
[2014]
 Best Place to Work in the Bay Area, San Francisco Business Times
(#2 for large company) [2014]

5. “Career”
 Career is not equivalent to your job
– A job is what a company gives you
– Your career is yours. You own it, you define it, you direct it.
 Career doesn’t start at 9 and end at 5
– Further education (classes, training)
– Networking
– “Personal Brand”
– Hobbies / Sports / Charitable work
– Honing your craft

6. Hone your craft
 Skill in doing or making something
 Choosing a craft
 Understand the difference between tools and your craft
– “I write Java” vs “I build software”
– Tools change, craft is constant
 Practice your craft
– “10,000 hour rule” – Malcolm Gladwell

7. Why does this fall?

8. Focus on what you can control
 Don’t play the victim

9. Alignment
 Always have context for what you’re doing
 Business Goal
– What does the business do for your customers
 Organizational alignment
– How does your organisation help
the business deliver that goal
 Personal alignment
– How do you help your organisation
deliver

10. Passion
 Find your passion
– Never too late to find it
 Reminds you why you’re doing
what you do

11. Other career considerations
 Your reputation
– Doing a great job will get you great jobs
– Your reputation often precedes you
 Networking
– Meet folks with common interests
 Mentors
– “hitching your wagon”

12. Interviewing – The Basics
 On time
 Understand dress code
 Research the organisation
 Research the role
– Job spec often too vague
 Know who you will be meeting
 Know the format of the interview
 Accuracy of CV
 Answer question you’re asked
– Be frank, open & honest

13. Interview – Your preparation
 Expect behavioural questions
– Give me an example of when…
– Tell me about a time when…
 Turn non-behavioural questions in to behavioural answers
 Past examples used to predict future behaviours

14. Interviewing – What we look for
 Adaptability
 Problem solving
 Communication
 Initiative
 Leadership
 Teamwork

15. Closing…

16. Questions ?
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