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Seeking Wisdom with David Cancel

27: 3 Hiring Secrets (And Why You Need To Rely More On Your Senses)

Seeking Wisdom with David Cancel

Molly Sloan

Business, Entrepreneurship

5610 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2016

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

If you liked this episode, we bet that you’ll love our blog content. blog.drift.com/#subscribe Subscribe to never miss a post & join the 20,000+ other pros committed to getting better every day. --- Hiring is hard. Luckily I was able to get David to go behind the scenes and share some of his hiring secrets on this episode of Seeking Wisdom. It's all about relying on your senses -- not on a resume. Join the community of Seeking Wisdom listeners at seekingwisdom.io and on Twitter @seekingwisdomio. Make sure you subscribe to Seeking Wisdom on your favorite podcast app so you never miss a new episode. Follow David (twitter.com/dcancel) and Dave (twitter.com/davegerhardt) on Twitter.

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0:00.0

Let's go, let's go, let's go.

0:01.6

We're recording. We're recording.

0:05.6

All right, we're going to talk about hiring today.

0:08.1

Boom!

0:08.8

So we got to do an intro, though.

0:11.8

You do it.

0:12.8

Today on Seeking Wisdom, we're talking about...

0:14.5

Today I'm seeking wisdom.

0:16.0

We're talking about three secrets of hiring that you're not aware of today.

0:21.3

Ooh, that's pretty good. All right, so we're talking hiring.

0:47.8

I think we've touched on hiring, but we haven't had a full discussion about it.

0:52.6

And, you know, we kind of, this is one of those where we had an episode we were going to do, but then you sent me a note and had some good thoughts on hiring. And so I figured, let's do it. Let's do it. Come on. Let's give the people what they want. Let's talk about hiring. So, three secrets. So we probably could do an episode on each one of these. Yes. And I think in the future we can and do blog posts on them. I hate the Secrets thing, but let's use secrets. Yeah, but now, Secrets is just like a nice title. It's a good title. All right. So we won't even call it secrets. We're just talking about hiring. Yeah. Three things that, you know, you talk about a lot, started to, like,

1:29.1

you know, impart on us here at Drift and we do them. So let's, I'll, I'll kind of outline the

1:34.1

three points and then we'll go into each one of them. So just three kind of different things to

1:39.0

think about when hiring. The first one is finding their purpose. What does that mean? So, like, explain how this

1:48.4

fits in hiring. Yeah, this is almost like the starting with why, right? Start with why. So one

1:55.7

thing that I found in trying to find, and this is not just about hiring, but this is trying to hire the most

2:01.8

and high performance people that you can.

2:04.6

And high performance, you know, a lot of people say that.

2:06.7

What does it actually mean?

2:07.9

For me, it means like hiring someone that is going to surprise, going to wow you, that has this

2:15.4

kind of hidden potential in them, right, this fire that's

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