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Seeking Wisdom with David Cancel

#76: Two Things That Tell You Everything During An Interview

Seeking Wisdom with David Cancel

Molly Sloan

Business, Entrepreneurship

5610 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2017

⏱️ 16 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. Really freaking hard. Why? Well, because it’s easy for someone to write a script and tell a story — or to let a few nice logos on their resume do all of the talking. But how do you know what someone is actually like? David has come up with two “tells” to look for over the years (and you can use them too to find your next great hire and teammate). Here’s how you can support Seeking Wisdom if you’re a fan of the show: 1. Get your tickets to Hypergrowth using the promo code SEEKINGWISDOM at hypergrowth.drift.com 2. Subscribe on your favorite podcast app. 3. Leave us a five-star review. Here's how: bit.ly/5-Stars-Only.

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0:00.0

I'm going to hit record.

0:01.0

As long as these are going on it.

0:03.6

Is it recording? We're recording. Does it have a memory card in it? Yeah. Yeah, we should be good. All right. We should be good. We're back. We're back. Finally. What you guys didn't know is that, because you've been listening to Seeking Wisdom episodes. Shout out. Lots of downloads lately. Lots of downloads. is that DJ has been gone.

0:02.7

Tell them why you've been listening to seeking wisdom episodes. Shout out. Lots of downloads lately. Lots of downloads. Is that DG has been gone. Tell them why you've been gone, DG. I have been gone because I found my Y. Find your Y? All right, full circle. What's your why? All of the talk about finding the Y, we had a baby. Annie. What's up, Annie so up Annie shout out shout out pooping her pants

0:41.3

right now I had a baby yeah and she was supposed to come in the middle of July which she came the

0:47.8

first week of June so amazing I was out for two weeks seeking wisdom we're back just kept rolling just

0:53.9

kept rolling the ship kept rolling. The ship

0:54.8

keeps rolling. We have an amazing team. So yeah, that's a whole new angle. I don't know, I don't know what I'm going to bring to the table now. I know it's going to be different. Is your chemistry going to be off? Luckily for all of you, I know what you're thinking right now. What are you? Annie looks like mom, not like Dave.

0:52.8

She does, yes.

0:53.4

So we're good.

0:54.0

Yes.

0:54.2

We're good.

0:54.5

We're good.

0:55.1

You won't see her until she's two, just like Beyonce and Jay Z.

0:58.1

Yeah, yes. So we're good. Yes. We're good.

1:44.5

You won't see her until she's two, just like Beyonce and Jay Z. There's no public photos. What advice are you? What are you going to give me advice on the record? I mean, you've got a lot of advice off the record. That's off the record. You're off the record. Yeah. I'd say the biggest thing for a new dad is that it really... The magic moment, and this is going to sound bad. Okay. But the magic moment really comes around eight or nine months. Oh my God. Okay. That's when the magic comes. That's a long time. That's a long time. Because that's you can really connect and the personality starts to come out.

1:45.2

Okay. Until then, it's a little hard, especially I don't know how you're feeding her, but like if your wife is feeding her, then you don't have that connection, right? And so later that really pops. Yeah. Nine months, that's when it gets good. That's good to know. I'm looking forward to that. Yeah, she's just like a sleepy peanut right now.

1:42.7

But I'm out there.

1:43.7

You can see me if you follow me on Instagram. I'm live, you know, sharing my feeding at 2 in the morning if you want to see what I'm at at 3 a.m. So, all right, we'll talk about. That's always going to be a recurring theme. I was okay. So I have all my notes, per usual, right, looking through things that we could talk about, and I decided that I want to combine two things, and I want to ask you them, because they're both kind of related.

2:25.9

Okay.

2:26.4

And they're both about tells, okay?

2:29.3

You're always kind of like observing and looking for tells about people, okay?

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