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Jake Grimm

May 28, 2026

6:41
So what's your approach to building high-performance teams? What is it that you would look for that you can't necessarily see on a CV or a resume?
6:48
Yeah, absolutely.
6:49
So when you get a resume in, right, everybody's looks great for the most part, right? It's, it's hard to read between the lines and see kind of what they're trying to say through that.
6:55
So obviously we get into conversation with them, and what we wanna try to gauge is those soft skills, like I was saying earlier, right? Like, we, myself, at least, you know, when I'm building my team, I want somebody that obviously has the technical acumen, right? I mean, that's base one.
7:10
But we need to continue forward into do you like to teach people, right? Are you a leader in a department? Do you like to impart your knowledge onto others? And, and something that, you know, applicably, applicably, as we, um, build our team here at Shawmut, right, we're a brand-new department within a, a medium to large-sized company, right? And there's a lot of people who don't even know what a data center is, or if they do, they just see it in the news, right? And a lot of our charge as pre-con and, and building professionals at Shawmut is to teach and impart our knowledge on others 'cause like I said, everybody wants to be a part of it.
7:41
Every, every time I turn around somebody's like, "How can I help? How can I get in on this?" Um, so for me, it's, it's being a part of that team culture, right? Is I'm, I'm on the base-level understanding that if you're coming onto the team, you know enough about the industry to be able to perform the work.
7:57
But for me, I think it's being a leader, being a teacher, and, um, you know, you'll hear me say this a lot, being elastic and being adaptive, right, is, is what I always say.
9:56
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