The question that Mamaearth's Ghazal Alagh asks herself before hiring an employee: 'I make it a habit...'

Ghazal Alagh also revealed the question that she asks herself before hiring an employee. (Image: @GhazalAlagh/X)

Ghazal Alagh, co-founder of Mamaearth, shared a tip for businesses to make their “hiring game top-notch”. In a post on X, she shared a picture of herself surrounded by a few colleagues and revealed the one question that she asks herself before hiring an employee.

“Your company is nothing without your team members. So, your hiring game should be top-notch,” Alagh wrote on Monday. “Here's what helps me: Before hiring someone, I make it a habit to ask myself: ‘What are the 3 areas where this person is better than me?’ This helps me prioritise hiring people I truly value and want to build with for the long term,” she added.

Your company is nothing without your team members.
So, your hiring game should be top-notch.

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Here's what helps me:

Before hiring someone, I make it a habit to ask myself:

"What are the 3 areas where this person is better than me?"

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This helps me prioritise hiring people I… pic.twitter.com/sDrYEwPM3R

— Ghazal Alagh (@GhazalAlagh) April 15, 2024

Alagh, who is quite active on X, often shares tips and tricks for entrepreneurs to grow their businesses. On Saturday, she also posted some suggestions to help someone become a market leader in their industry. She urged entrepreneurs to stop relying on industry assumptions and take the “First Principles thinking approach” instead.

She wrote about aspects such as challenging assumptions, looking for evidence, considering alternative perspectives, examining consequences and implications and questioning the original questions.

If you want to be a market leader in your industry, STOP relying on industry assumptions.

Instead, take the First Principles thinking approach. Here's how:

> Clarify your thinking and explain the origin of your ideas
> Challenge assumptions
> Look for evidence
> Consider… pic.twitter.com/x650HIA2aR

— Ghazal Alagh (@GhazalAlagh) April 12, 2024

Meanwhile, last month, the co-founder of the beauty brand had a surprise interaction with former Indian cricket team’s captain Kapil Dev. She took to X to share a photo with Dev and also revealed the three lessons that she had learnt from him during the two-hour-long flight.

During the interaction, she also found out that both of them had studied in the same school in Chandigarh. “Me and @therealkapildev Paji shared a 2-hour long flight and the lessons I learnt are invaluable: > Don’t play to win, play for passion. > Focus on your children’s character, not scores. > Treat challenges as an adventure, not problems. I even found out we have the same hometown, Chandigarh and we both went to DAV 15 for schooling! The flight was serendipitous, so grateful that I met the legend,” she wrote in the viral tweet.