Nigerian Businessman, Didi-Omah Augustine Speak On How He Hires People For His Companies

In hiring people to work with me, I look at what I want, and they offering it. I don't seek for age, certificate and experience. 

I seek for ability, courage and excitement. These help me hire the right people, not the suitable people for my business. Work with the right team, not suitable team — the right team bring success, the suitable team increase cash expenditures.

I don't hire fancy degrees, MBAs, I hire hustle, those that got the skills, the zeal — that deliver, and have right attitude. I believe right attitude beats best CVs.

Many are looking for professionals, wanting to have experts in their team — it is good to get them. To me, it is not profitable, a young graduate, that have the ability, courage and excitement — will deliver excellent task, than a professional of thirty years in the field. I can tell you the truth.

When hiring people, don't ask about their certificates or experiences; don't ask how many degrees they has. You can ask, but don't hire them based on these. Hire people on "I want this done", can you "deliver it and add value to my company". 

This is the way you pick your people. They must be able to do.

I have worked with both a graduate and an undergraduate — they did excellent job in building and fixing issues on doacWeb (formerly, Doactalk); on different occasions.

So I love corporate management, I believe in a collaborative management style. One with open communication and support. I want to empower them and see their ideas succeed.

I view failure as a learning opportunity when I analyse what went wrong and how to improve, all while staying positive and resilient.

I don't cope with failure, I fight it out. This cause me to remember my quote on failure. 

Which I said: you must not fail to achieve success, you must learn to earn success. When you learn from successful people, their failures, their mistakes, their falls, their setbacks, what delayed them, why they failed — along with their success records and achievements. You have escape failing to success; when you implement, execute rightly — you have then learn to earn success.

I have come to understand this statement; failure is not fatal, success is not final. You have to continue, so you won't be stagnant.

So many failures I experienced. Over time failures stop being my enemy... It became my fuel. I get to have back up always, because something unexpectedly will occur on the path, it is life, and life is a business.

© Didi-Omah Augustine Chinazaekpere