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How to hire great people - Acquisitions Anonymous e70

2022/2/18
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Acquisitions Anonymous - #1 for business buying, selling and operating

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How do you make a repeatable, scalable, unbeatable Hiring system? Michael Girdley (@Girdley)) walks us through his take on hiring. Save on resources in advance by hiring the best fits for each role.


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Show Notes:

(00:00) - Intro(01:58) - My story: I got sick of making hires that didn’t thrive(03:30) - Building a repeatable system(04:16) - Looking at the data! How to predict a good hire?(07:06) - Gathering the important and search for existing systems(10:00) - What makes people really great at a position?(13:42) - My hiring proces(14:57) - A-B-C players idea(18:34) - Hiring sales funnel(24:02) - Topgrading: Interviewing, reference checking and offer crafting(31:13) - Culture Index: Science-based personality trait assessment(34:15) - Criteria: Pre-hire screening assessments(35:25) - Example process with steps(39:49) - Complementary readings

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Past guests on Acquanon include Nick Huber, Brent Beshore, Aaron Rubin, Mike Botkin, Ari Ozick, Mitchell Baldridge, Xavier Helgelsen, Mike Loftus, Steve Divitkos, Dzmitry Miranovich, Morgan Tate and more.


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