The "cultural fit"

I see a lot of jobs being advertised and utilising the words “cultural fit” within the advertisements, and I’ve gotta be honest with you: I don’t want that.

I don’t want cultural fit.? I want values-aligned, absolutely … but I don’t want cultural fit.

If I spent my TDP lifetime looking for cultural fit alone, I’d be looking for people I could imagine myself having a glass of wine with after work, or dinner.??

For me, I’ve landed on recognising that looking for culture fit is a dangerous way to discriminate, without even realising you’re doing it [and I’ve landed on this, because I believe culture fit is just a really vague term based off of *really* vague gut instincts etc.].

I feel like searching for cultural fit is this misguided hiring strategy that [completely] contributes to a real lack of diversity within companies [i.e hiring managers feeling all-endeared-like to the people they could imagine themselves having a beer with].

Ultimately, though? Scanning for cultural fit lands you in the position of having all homogenous or - worse - homosocial hires [because more often than not? The people we’d have a wine with, or go out to dinner with … have backgrounds *exactly* like our own].

Here in TDP-land, we don’t actually want culture fit … and are instead looking for culture add.? Like, *add* something … and don’t worry about “fitting”, because we’re a company founded by the ultimate misfit [#itme], and I don’t want fit.? I want add.

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