How to Avoid Fortune 500 Hiring Mistakes with Brad Owens
Entrepreneurs on Fire
John Lee Dumas
4.8 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2018
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
The Robin Hood of hiring, Brad, spent a decade helping Fortune 500 companies find talent. Now he helps small businesses attract, hire, and retain their teams.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Make a statement in your job ad that communicates why people would want to work with you.
2. Seek experts for their feedback and learn to trust that feedback.
3. Change what you're hiring for.
Visit Brad's websites - HRCoaching.com and BradOwens.com
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| 0:00.0 | What's shaken fire nation JLD here and welcome that episode |
| 0:06.0 | 1959 of EO fire right chat with entrepreneurs on fire |
| 0:11.0 | seven not six seven days a week check out our free |
| 0:17.0 | podcasting course so that you can create grow and monetize |
| 0:20.0 | your podcast free podcast course dot com now let's chat |
| 0:25.0 | with today's featured guest Brad Owens Brad are you prepared |
| 0:29.0 | to ignite born ready the Robinhood of hiring Brad spent |
| 0:34.0 | a decade helping 14 500 companies find talent now he helps small |
| 0:39.0 | businesses attract higher and retain their teams Brad taking |
| 0:44.0 | a minute fill in some gaps from that in show and give us just a |
| 0:47.0 | little glimpsial personal life will do thanks so much for having me |
| 0:51.0 | so I like to say I'm the white picket fence away from the American |
| 0:55.0 | happy married got two kids under the age of five with the golden |
| 0:58.0 | retriever in the suburbs of Cleveland Ohio I mean doesn't get much |
| 1:01.0 | more American dream than that professionally I've helped almost |
| 1:05.0 | a third of the fortune 500 out there fine talent you're starting |
| 1:09.0 | straight out of school all the way up to sea levels of an organization |
| 1:12.0 | and you know what I found was they do some things right but most |
| 1:16.0 | organizations aren't approaching hiring and retention in the right |
| 1:19.0 | ways that's where this all started Brad let's be honest the |
| 1:22.0 | Cleveland Browns have to win a football game before you're truly |
| 1:25.0 | living the American dream oh man don't give me started on that |
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