Jason Fried on hiring an assistant

As usual, 37Signals took a different approach when it came time to hire an assistant for the company. In general, I agree that most job postings are relatively unhelpful, and this struck me as a fantastic way to do a job posting:

We decided to go in a different direction to locate our new assistant. Instead of a boring list of skillsâthis software, that many years of experience, “team player,” etc.âwe wrote a list of 26 things that this person would have done in a week had he or she been working here.