The one trait you need to succeed at Hulu
I believe the people that are most successful at Hulu are those who are able to effectively navigate change. That might be a change to a process or way of doing things or a sudden, right turn in how we are approaching a key part of our business. We are operating in an industry that is rapidly evolving and we will only be successful if we embrace that change.
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The most impressive question a job candidate has asked her
I'm generally impressed by questions where you can tell the candidate truly cares about the answer and it will make the difference in their desire to take the job, if offered. So, with that frame, the most recent example of this was a candidate that asked me to share my strategy for the Talent and Organization team and an aspect of it that we hadn't yet accomplished and why.
I could tell the candidate was evaluating whether I was the kind of HR leader she would want to work for and whether she could bring something to the table that would help me accomplish the so far unaccomplished.
How she handled a period of unfulfillment at work
About mid-way through my time at Hulu, I went through a time of feeling unfulfilled and found myself in a vicious and unproductive cycle of looking outward for others to fix my sense of unfulfillment.
After much inward reflection, I became present to the cause of my disengagement — my value of efficiency was being comprised. Every time I had to engage in a process that felt manual, cumbersome, inefficient or not scalable, I would be triggered. Once I was able to pinpoint what was going on, I could take action and personal responsibility to change it.
In this instance, it literally meant keeping a running log of those triggers and next to each one, defining the next action I would take to make it better. By doing this, I started to feel more present to what was going on and could take meaningful steps toward making my job one that is empowering and fulfilling.