Shake Shack founder shares the green flags he looks for in new hires: ‘I really don’t give a damn what your IQ is’

• Shake Shack Founder Danny Meyer has high rental criteriaEven if they are highly capable of being a lack of hospitality skills like nature and integrity and work ethic can still cost them.

As now 510th place – a strong shaking shake, Danny meyer Help hire thousands of best pyramids and Milkshake creators. However, he closely examines talent than you can expect.

Even if someone is very capable, they may not be cut off in one of the Meyer’s restaurants if they decrease what they call “hospitality” or HQ.

“I don’t really give a damn what your IQ is,” said Meyer Fortuneis Jason Del Rey approximately Quality X4 summit.

“What does IQ think, in fact, is to study? What is the degree that someone is happier when they give happiness for someone else? “

According to Meyer, the best emotional skills that will pay you.

Meyer, who spent 40 years in the restaurant business and is currently serving as an executive chairman A square hospitality group of unionAdded six green flags, which he is looking for the most.

• Whole
• Optimism
• Mental curiosity
• Working ethic
• Compassion
• Self-consciousness

Having these skills will not only help the employee stand out in the hiring process, but also arm them that the ladder will rise even faster, “learn-everything.”

While Meyer’s skills list may seem that the obvious goal of any aspiring business leader: The restaurant industry has long been fighting find and maintain the best talent. Plus, gen z it is not easy Questions about their work etheart Stay.

They would do well to remember that the attitude is often more important than skills. Amazon CEO Andya Jeans He went as far as he said that the attitude could be the real deadman or the business invaded the “shy” money, especially in your career.

“I think people will be amazed at how much people have a great attitude,” he said. “I think it makes a big difference,” says Manat in an interview LinkedIn’s Ceo Ryan RoslanskyA number

Other hospitality business managers have also shared such moods that will not always cut off the surface level. Chris KempczinskiMcDonald’s Executive Director, wrote last year This, while the characteristics of expertise, experience and professionalism are important, demonstrating the company’s values ​​and culture, especially in difficult situations, can be greater.

“I want to see our values ​​of real examples of life. Serve, include, integrity, community and family, “he said.

Hospitality skills may even exceed college degree

Meyer is so serious about the importance of hospitality skills in any successful business he said that job passion is even more important than a Candidate College CallA number

Last year Meyer said the graduates We need to consider that their college’s main thing in favor of what they really want to do.

“You have learned a lot. There’s no question about that, and no one can keep away from you anymore. But there can be anything within you that really wants to express himself, “he said.

The 67-year-old child knows it works because he was doing it. After graduating from the College of Trinity, he almost went to law school. Instead, he listened to his bowels and learned to become “his own boss” and grew up. Shake A circle of a temporary hot dog in the Park of Madison to 3.8 billion, which is today.

“When you make a big choice, while maybe it’s tempting what others expect you to challenge your chest and chase what you really love,” he said.

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