1040. Mastering Recruitment: Kelly Roach's Guide to Building a Legacy Team
The Kelly Roach Show
Kelly Roach
4.9 • 965 Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of The Kelly Roach Show, Kelly explores the art of mastering recruitment and hiring, shedding light on the insightful yet challenging aspects of this critical business function. She provides invaluable lessons from her encounters with failed hires.
Kelly delves into the criticality of a standardized hiring process and the risks associated with rush hires, sharing her wisdom on attracting and retaining premier talent. She highlights the importance of behavioral event interview questions and underscores the necessity of thorough reference checks to circumvent the severe consequences of unsuitable hires.
Also in this episode:
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Ensure you have a clear, detailed hiring process to follow to avoid pitfalls in recruitment, including using LinkedIn and video applications to filter candidates..
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Always stick to predetermined interview questions to bring out the true capabilities and compatibility of candidates.
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Hire into execution roles before promoting to leadership to ensure cultural fit and capability.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Kelly Roach Show, the place for no-fluff, easy to implement 20 minute or less business and leadership lessons to help you build a sustainable business that scales. |
| 0:17.0 | Lead with integrity and create a lasting legacy. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm Kelly Roach, former NFL cheerleader and Fortune 500 executive turned |
| 0:25.9 | eight figure entrepreneur. Let's get started. |
| 0:30.3 | Welcome back. This is the Kelly Roach Show. Today we're digging into lessons learned from |
| 0:35.3 | failed hires and boy do I have a few of them. But before we get into those, |
| 0:40.6 | let me just remind you, no matter how many hires you make in your lifetime, |
| 0:46.2 | you are dealing with humans. |
| 0:49.0 | So you're going to strive to improve your process and improve your effectiveness, each hire that you make. |
| 0:56.1 | You're going to strive to continue to build the kind of organization that can attract and |
| 1:01.2 | retain a player's, but just keep in mind that there is no perfection |
| 1:06.5 | when it comes to hiring because you are in fact dealing with humans. |
| 1:11.5 | So hopefully that is just a reminder as we begin. Now even in the |
| 1:16.4 | Fortune 500 world I was responsible for recruiting hiring and training my own team members. |
| 1:23.7 | And so it's pretty sufficed to say that I have hired hundreds of team members at this point |
| 1:31.1 | and also promoted dozens upon dozens of new hires. I've also helped |
| 1:36.1 | individuals to climb the ranks into mid-level and high-level executive leadership |
| 1:41.2 | roles both in corporate and in my own companies and I've had |
| 1:45.9 | wins and I've had losses with each one of these things. I've had hires that I'm |
| 1:51.2 | unbelievably proud of and people that have been with me for three years, |
| 1:56.1 | five years, seven years, almost ten years now. And I have people that have come and gone in a matter of |
| 2:02.1 | days in my companies. I've had people that have |
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