Welcome to Q&A Wednesday here on the $100 MBA show where I answer your question about business growth and everything in between.

Today's question comes from Rob. And Rob asks, how do I find the best people to hire on a budget?

Hiring is one of the trickiest parts of building a business in my opinion. Because who you hire is basically what your business becomes.

Because the people that hire the best people, the best talented, skilled, hungry people

are the ones that build the best business.

And with budget pressures, it makes it even harder.

But after 20 years of hiring team members all over the world, I've learned

one big truth, a truth that you can't avoid, and that's you get what you pay for.

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business insights three times a week for free. Thanks. So let's break down how to make smart hires

even when money's tight. I know that sounds like, you know, you get what you pay for means I have to

pay more to get great talent. Not necessarily. You need to kind of change the way you see hiring and see it as a job

to be done. How can I get this job done efficiently and cost effectively as possible? But make sure

that I'm doing as much as possible with the money I have. I'll explain in today's lesson.

Most entrepreneurs, they try to hack hiring.

They're looking for a deal. They're looking for the diamond and a rough. I know this for a fact,

because I used to be one of those people. I thought that I could find somebody that's really

hungry and ambitious and smart and they're just up and coming and I you know, I'll just be able to afford them and

then they can grow with me. Very hard to find, in my opinion, impossible to find. The person

who will work for peanuts and then somehow deliver like a rock star only exists in your head,

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