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Hired: Talent VP on Job Interviews, Negotiation & Offers

Lou Adler - ”The Most Important Interview Question of All Time!”

Hired: Talent VP on Job Interviews, Negotiation & Offers

Hired Podcast

Education, Interview Prep, Promotions, Self-improvement, Careers, Job Interviews, Job Search, How To, Resumes, Business, Cover Letters

4.9638 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Lou Adler is The CEO, and founder of The Adler Group – a consulting and training firm helping companies implement "Win-Win Hiring" programs using his Performance-based Hiring℠ system for finding and hiring exceptional talent. https://www.louadlergroup.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/louadler/ Sterile Processing Jobs: https://www.sterilejobs.com/ Surgical Technician Jobs: https://www.scrubtechjobs.com/ Commercial HVAC Jobs:https://www.commercialhvacjobs.com/ Commercial Electrician Jobs: ...

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Quick favor, if you're listening on Apple Podcasts, we're only a couple hundred reviews away from 1,000, which is an enormous milestone for the show.

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If you've gotten value from these episodes and you have the Apple Podcast app, it takes 10 seconds, just tap the five stars and hit submit.

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Or I'd love to hear your experience and how this

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has helped you in the review. These stories mean everything to me. Let's hit that 1,000 mark

0:29.9

together and thank you so much in advance. Welcome to the job interview experience. I'm a former executive recruiter, search from owner,

0:39.8

director of talent acquisition, and today, the founder of candidate club interview prep, and your

0:44.8

host of the job interview experience. One of the things that I think makes this podcast

0:51.6

helpful to you is that I bring you a perspective from the other side of

0:56.0

the table as you. You, the job seeker, and the hosts, a recruiter. I put a lot of effort into

1:04.0

bringing you great guests, especially guests with a perspective that you need to hear, but you may not

1:10.6

have thought of or

1:12.0

sought out.

1:13.4

Some of the best lessons you can learn are from what I call the other side of the table,

1:18.8

and that's why I'm excited to have Lou Adler with us today.

1:22.9

Lou Adler is a CEO and founder of the Adler Group, a consulting firm and training firm helping companies

1:29.7

implement win-win hiring programs using his performance-based hiring system for finding

1:36.1

and hiring exceptional talent.

1:39.4

Lou thinks outside the box and realizes that the hiring process was broken, and many of you listening

1:46.7

also feel like the hiring process is broken, as do why.

1:51.7

Lou decided to do something about it and invented what's now famously known as the

1:57.2

performance-based hiring model.

1:59.3

With over 40 years in the recruiting industry,

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