Coaching practices for Is it Discriminatory to Put Bonus Video Game Skills in a Job Advertisement

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• I keep hiring for the most impressive resume and then watching them work purely transactionally, and I want to start screening for whether someone actually believes in what we’re doing
• I dangled a bonus to motivate the creative work
• My whole job search is just refreshing job boards and firing off applications into the void, competing with hundreds of strangers for whatever happens to be posted
• I’ve got talented people but I keep slotting them in by whoever’s free or whatever their title says, and I can feel their real gifts going to waste
• I’d jump on this in a heartbeat if it were the familiar version, but because it’s in a world I don’t know I’m demanding way more proof before I’ll touch it

Practices that may help

1. Hire people who share the Why, not just the skills
   Skills can be learned; shared belief cannot — filtering for Why-alignment at hiring is the highest-leverage culture move.
   Start With Why: Leading Through Purpose
2. Be wary of "if-then" rewards on creative work
   Contingent rewards can narrow focus and dull performance on complex tasks.
   Drive: Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose
3. Build and work a target list of roles and organisations
   Replace passive job board browsing with active research into specific organisations you want to understand.
   Informational Interviews: Career Research That Builds Your Network
4. Become a talent magnet: attract and deploy people at their best
   Multipliers find what people do naturally well and put them in conditions where that genius is essential.
   Multipliers: How Leaders Amplify the Intelligence Around Them
5. Gamification of Habits
   Gamification adds points, levels, and quests to make a behavior more immediately rewarding and engaging, which can boost a habit in the short term. The serious caveat is the overjustification effect: when external rewards take over a behavior you already valued, they can crowd out the intrinsic motivation and leave you less interested once the points stop.
6. Check whether you’re demanding an unfair ambiguity premium
   Estimate what you’d accept under comparable known-odds risk — if your bar is much higher for unknown odds, that gap is the bias.
   Ambiguity Aversion — Why Unknown Odds Feel Worse Than Bad Odds
7. Build a team whose combined strengths cover all four domains
   Hire and assemble deliberately for domain coverage, not for people who think like you.
   Strengths-Based Leadership, Made Practical
8. Make feedback specific and behavioral, not evaluative
   Describe what you observed, not what it says about the person.
   The Feedback Sandwich: Why It Doesn’t Work and What to Do Instead
9. Name trade-off anti-goals: conditions that come bundled with attractive outcomes
   Many desirable outcomes come packaged with specific costs — name the hidden costs as anti-goals before you commit.
   Anti-Goals: Defining Success by What You Refuse to Accept
10. Use escalating rewards to maintain motivation across time
    Build in reward escalation — increasing token value for sustained performance — to counteract the habituation that flattens fixed rewards.
    Contingency Management and Token Economies

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