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The $100 MBA Show

MBA2660 Q&A Wednesday: Why Do I Keep Hiring The Wrong Type of People?

The $100 MBA Show

Omar Zenhom

Careers, Entrepreneurship, Business, Marketing

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Hiring shouldn’t feel like a roll of the dice—but for many entrepreneurs, it does. If you've ever brought someone on board only to realize they weren’t the right fit, you're not alone. It’s a pattern that can drain your time, budget, and energy.

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0:00.0

Hey, welcome back to the $100 MBA show.

0:02.4

Today's Q&A Wednesday where I answer a real question from a real listener just like you.

0:07.3

Today's question is from Fred, and it's a big one.

0:10.6

Why do I keep hiring the wrong type of people?

0:13.8

Oh man, if I had a dollar every time I heard this, this is so common, it's not even funny.

0:17.7

And what I learned the hard way throughout my career is that your job as

0:21.7

an entrepreneur soon becomes recruitment really you got to become a recruitment expert because

0:27.8

the better people that you hire the better team you have the better business you have the better

0:32.6

product you have it's just the best way to compete in the marketplace. So this is okay, right?

0:39.1

We all start somewhere.

0:40.9

And today I'm going to show you how to get better at recruitment and hire the right people

0:46.3

for your company and for the position you're hiring for.

1:00.0

Welcome back to the $100 NBA show. I'm your host, Omar Zen home, where I deliver practical business lessons three times a week, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday to help you start, grow,

1:04.8

and scale your business. We're going to dig into the honest truth about why most entrepreneurs struggle with hiring.

1:14.1

And I'm going to show you how to fix it for good so that you don't have to worry about this anymore and you're just getting better and better.

1:20.4

But first I want to say to Fred who asks this question, everybody who's listening, don't beat yourself up.

1:25.4

Hiring the wrong person is not a rare mistake. It's actually

1:28.7

the norm in most early stage businesses. And the reason why this happens is because everyone

1:34.8

looks good on paper. This is something that I had to learn again the hard way. Everyone looks good

1:41.7

on paper. No one states their flaws on their CV or resume.

1:46.2

No one states their weaknesses in an interview.

1:49.7

Everyone says the right things in the interview.

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