Laszlo_Bock

Google hires people of every age ... our oldest Googler is over 80! Best advice is to make clear the impact of your work. Basically, for all your accomplishments use the format "accomplished X by doing Y as measured by Z." Please apply!

Thanks!!! Some of my best friends are HR people in Europe. :) Mainly, keep pushing to use data to make good decisions. Too much of HR and management is about our gut instead of what we can prove.

General cognitive ability (problem solving, ability to learn and integrate new information). If you've got that, you can be taught and/or figure out a lot of other things. Assessing GCA is also the 2nd-most predictive thing you can look for when hiring, according to decades of academic research on this. (#1 is a work sample test, but that's a much harder thing to engineer.)

I'm short on time here, but send me an email. Happy to help.

For most employers, it's tough because they look for specialized expertise. In my experience most people switching fields take a step back / pay cut. That said, look for something that's as adjacent as possible (e.g., policy, communications) and work from there. You can describe a lot of your legal experiences in ways that also highlight skills that are relevant to those fields.

For Google, apply for any job that looks good. We hire based on our assessment of problem solving, leadership, etc and care way, way less about what field you're coming from.

Hope that helps!