What was his recruitment style and how was it effective?

Warren Buffett’s Recruitment         
         Warren Buffett is genuinely serious when it comes to hiring the right people for the company. He is known for his no-nonsense attitude when it comes to business, businessman to possibly future businessman kind of conversation only. As a result to that, his application qualifications are sensible and simple.

• The 3 main qualifications:
• Integrity
• Intelligence
• Energy

As we can see above, the qualifications are arranged in a flow; integrity comes first, intelligence second and energy is placed last.

For Warren, the recruitment process is simply complete, having all these three qualifications. The combination of these three characteristics plays an important role in a successful organisation. The determination on whom to hire makes a world’s difference. 

Job Adverts

• Media used to advertise job vacancies: 
• Website (External recruitment)
• Example of Job Advertisement for Berkshire Hathaway:
• Executive Assistant 

• Chief Financial Officer

The Job advertisements above are set by Berkshire Hathaway and from there, we can observe that their descriptions and requirements strongly reflect on the company’s corporate culture. It is according to the culture around the company, the culture of the leadership managements. I personally think that this recruitment system is great, as it is all in clear-cut; it specifies clearly on what they really require around the company. Despite having a clear recruitment requirement, their way of organising the job advertisement is fantastic too! Their description and requirements clearly show the corporate culture of the company, which allows applicants to understand the system around the company and that they can assure themselves whether or not they qualify to work in that kind of situations. If I were to be an applicant and I am interested and have all the requirements they need, I would happily apply for that job as I clearly understand what they truly want in a professional employee and everybody should have the confidence of trying out something new, something like being a leader and being trained.