#283: 4 Steps to Avoid Hiring Mistakes with Dr. Geoff Smart

The EntreLeadership Podcast

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Management

4.7 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

With only a 50% success rate, hiring is widely considered one of the single biggest problems in business today. But get it right and it can become your greatest opportunity for success, says New York Timesbest-selling author Dr. Geoff Smart. For starters, you will save time and money (on average, to the tune of $1.5 million or more a year!). Also, you’ll likely be able to grow your business and in turn, your profits. Join us as Geoff, who is also the chairman and founder of the leadership consulting firm gh.SMART, shares his simple four-step hiring method that works 90% of the time. Now those are odds we can get behind. And don’t miss host Ken Coleman’s rant on a recent Wall Street Journal article on an intriguing hiring trend! entreleadership.com/podcast Hiring Makeover from EntreLeadership Collect and Consult: How to Use a Lead Magnet to Drive a Consultation from Infusionsoft Want expert help with your business question? Call 844-944-1070 and leave a message or send an email to [email protected]. You could be featured on a future podcast episode!

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0:00.0	Music
0:06.0	Helping business leaders grow themselves, their team, and their profits.
0:12.0	This is Entrain Leadership. Now, here's your host, Ken Coleman.
0:18.0	Coming to you from the Music City, this is the broadcast of Leaders Buy, Leaders, 4 Leaders.
0:23.0	Thank you so much for joining the conversation.
0:25.0	Here's what's coming up. I'm going to share some very interesting information
0:29.0	about the hiring environment in America right now. Jeff Smart is our feature conversation.
0:34.0	He's the best selling author of Who, the A-Method for Hiring.
0:38.0	We're going to give you a new Entrain Leadership tool on hiring makeovers
0:43.0	and, of course, some other goodies from Infusion Soft.
0:47.0	Hey, we want you to share, like, and subscribe to help us grow our show.
0:53.0	Alright, let's get right to this. I want to open up today.
0:55.0	Obviously, we've got a theme of this episode on hiring.
0:59.0	I want to start it off with a article that I recently read in the Wall Street Journal.
1:04.0	Now, this is really important. I want you to lean into this and understand that there are a couple
1:09.0	asterisk in this article that I'm going to share with you.
1:12.0	Okay, so here's the context right now in America in 2018.
1:16.0	Number one, we've got more jobs that are available than there are people who are unemployed.
1:22.0	So that is flipping the whole supply demand.
1:25.0	And so what's going on is this is a great time for people who want to be employed, right?
1:32.0	I mean, they can go in and say, hey, this is how it is. This is what I want.
1:35.0	If you don't want to give it to me, that's fine.
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