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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

540: Making Recruitment Work for You with Atta Tarki

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

Education, Selfhelp, Thinking, Business, Mental Health, Mockaitis, Collaboration, Career, Speaking, Skills, Meaning, Decisions, Self-improvement, Wins, Health & Fitness, Interview, Fun, Success, Money, Sharpening, Development, Careers, Writing, Training, Winning

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Atta Tarki sheds light on the crucial practices that improve the hiring process on both sides of the recruiting table.


— YOU'LL LEARN — 

1) The strongest predictor of job performance. 

2) What makes an interview answer excellent vs. terrible. 

3) The most important factors that determine career fit. 


Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep540 for clickable versions of the links below. 


— ABOUT ATTA — 

Atta Tarki and is the author of the book Evidence-Based Recruiting (McGraw Hill, February 2019) and the CEO of ECA, a data-driven executive search firm helping private equity firms with their talent needs.

• Atta’s book: Evidence-Based Recruiting: How to Build A Company of Star Performers Through Systematic and Repeatable Hiring Practices

• Atta’s website: ECA-Partners.com


— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — 

• Study: “Belief in the unstructured interview: The persistence of an illusion” by Jason Dana, Robyn Dawes, and Nathanial Peterson

• Website: Glassdoor

• Book: The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller

• Book: 1984 by George Orwell

• Book: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

• Film: Moneyball

• Film: The Karate Kid

• Previous Episode: 080: Finding and Doing the One Thing with Jay Papasan


— THANK YOU SPONSORS — 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.

0:10.0

Enjoy more career fund, wins, meaning, and money.

0:14.0

With your host, Pete McKitis.

0:16.2

Hello and thanks so much for joining us here

0:20.9

for episode 540 with Atatarki.

0:23.2

Ata has some excellent perspectives on recruiting and hiring.

0:27.6

We're going to hear from both sides whether you are looking to hire some people or

0:31.5

whether you are looking to get yourself hired

0:33.7

considering how you might strategize for some job acquisition job hunting

0:38.4

activities so if you find yourself more in the latter half of the equation. I recommend you might skip

0:45.1

ahead a little bit if you're getting bored because you don't want to miss some of the

0:47.6

things Atta has to share. They're so good. I haven't heard anybody else say

0:51.3

them before so I think you're going to love this one.

0:53.5

So you'll learn one, the strongest predictor of job performance.

0:56.2

Two, what makes an interview answer excellent versus terrible?

1:00.5

And three, the most important factors that determine career fit.

1:03.6

So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to

1:06.1

albums we've referenced, it's over at awesome at your job.com slash f-540.

1:10.1

Now here's At-Tah's story. At Tarki is the author of the book Evidence-based

1:14.9

recruiting and the CEO of ECA, a data-driven executive search firm helping private

1:20.1

equity firms with their talent needs. Big things to ATA for sharing his wisdom with us,

1:24.6

and big thanks to our sponsors.

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