615. How to Recruit, Interview, and Hire A+ Team Members

The Fitness Business Podcast with Erin Dimond and Jordan Dugger

Erin Dimond and Jordan Dugger

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Fitness

4.6 • 667 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

A great business is built for great people by great people and finding and hiring A+ level talent is what separates the good from the exceptional companies out there. We've done our fair share of hiring over the years and I wanted to share my insights and thoughts with you on today's episode. Whether you are making your first hire or your 30th and want to avoid some mistakes you might be overlooking, save this episode for future use and growth!

Time Stamps:

(0:24) Office Upgrade

(1:25) How Not To Hire: Proximity

(4:07) Recruit and Getting Leads

(6:07) Hiring Upper Echelon Roles

(8:38) Knowing What You’re Looking For

(11:36) Relentless Growth Core Value Example

(14:51) Hire Based Off Skills Not Experience

(17:33) Testing Competence

(22:58) Commitment

(25:03) Asking About Other Roles

(27:41) Example Interview Questions

(29:39) Creating A Rubric

(34:08) Action Steps Going Forward

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0:00.0	The biggest thing that is really important when hiring, like I already mentioned, is to know
0:04.6	what you're looking for.
0:06.2	And really you're looking for three things.
0:08.6	You are looking at a person's character.
0:11.3	They're looking at, you're looking at their competence and you're looking at their commitment
0:14.5	to your company.
0:16.9	All right, guys.
0:17.9	Hello.
0:18.6	Welcome back to the FitBiz podcast.
0:19.8	First episode that I'm recording here in my new
0:23.5	studio. The office got studio. It's my office, but it got a little upgrade. So I'm working on
0:30.6	all the tech, which isn't my strong suit, but I've tried to stop telling myself that I'm not good at
0:34.9	tech. I've tried to stop speaking that over me because it just becomes more of reality, the more I say it. Um, but anyway, I'm excited to talk to you about this today.
0:42.2	Today I want to talk to you about how to hire, recruit, and interview a players for your team.
0:49.3	So if you are someone, um, who is in the hiring or recruiting phase, then I promise here is my brain. Here is my
0:56.4	playbook. I have hired 50 plus people. I have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in mistakes
1:03.2	on hiring the wrong people and setting the wrong expectations. And I really just help,
1:07.9	and I just want to help you not do that very thing.
1:11.3	If you're someone who is going to be hiring soon, also listen up because there's just a lot.
1:18.0	A lot that goes into it, a lot that I've learned over the last six to seven years.
1:21.1	So I like to start with how not to hire and many of the common mistakes that I see.
1:26.4	So number one, proximity hires. So often,
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