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Do you know why HR people automatically delete 50% of their incoming emails? Who wants to work with people who are unlucky? Methods for attracting quality employees to your companyancThey are different and often quite unorthodox. Steve Jobs had its own and it must be noted right from the start that at the time when Steve Jobs he drove Apple, did not hire employeesance for ordinary positions, but the people he surrounded himself with in the innermost circle of the company's management.

He invited them to an interview and instead of waiting for answers to questions that every HR department has asked them a thousand times, he simply took them out for a beer. As soon as he came out Steve Jobs with a job applicant from Infinite Loop, they headed through the streets of Cupertino for a short walk to a pub, where they sat down for a beer. During the meeting, Steve asked questions ranging from the fundamental ones, such as when was the last time you accomplished something in your life, to the simple ones, such as what you did last summer. After two beers, the applicant spoke in a completely different way than in theancand started the number 1 man in AppI wanted to treat him a bit like a friend and not just as a boss, and that was exactly what Steve was all about.

Jobs' goal was to find the so-called A-players during the interviews, i.e. the best ones he wanted to surround himself with. "I find that when you have enough A-players together, when you put in all the effort to find them, then they really enjoy working together and everything runs like clockwork", he stated Steve Jobs in one of the interviews, adding that people started to enjoy working because they were surrounded by equally high-quality people, something most of them had never experienced before.

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