The Best Interview Framework For Finding Top Talent | Ep 72
Build with Leila Hormozi
Leila Hormozi
5 • 867 Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
“It's your responsibility to ask those hard questions to make sure that person's truly going to be fit for the company in the long haul." Today, Leila (@LeilaHormozi) discusses the importance of involving the CEO in the interview process to ensure the best interests of the company and its culture are represented. She outlines a multi-phase interview process that includes skill assessments and culture fit evaluations.
Welcome to Build where we talk about the lessons I have learned in scaling big businesses, gaining millions in sales, and helping our portfolio companies do the same. Buckle up, because we’re creating an unshakeable business.
Timestamps:
(0:39) - CEO involvement crucial for effective hires
(2:15) - Importance of CEO's direct involvement in interviews
(4:19) - Regular interviewing practice vital for improving skills
(7:55) - Second interview assesses skills, strengths, and scenarios
(10:26) - Third interview by CEO safeguards culture fit
(11:44) - Gatekeeper interview ensures alignment of values and expectations
Follow Leila Hormozi’s Socials:
LinkedIn | Instagram | YouTube | Twitter | Acquisition
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | This is the gatekeeper. |
| 0:01.4 | This is if you, the CEO are not the direct hiring manager. |
| 0:04.0 | This is where you come in. |
| 0:05.2 | And what you are intending to do in this interview is put the best interests of that person and your culture in mind. |
| 0:18.6 | How do you create an unshakable business? |
| 0:21.1 | I cross $100 million in net worth by the age of 28. |
| 0:24.2 | Now I'm growing Acquisition.com into a billion dollar portfolio. |
| 0:27.3 | In this podcast, I share the lessons I've learned in scaling big businesses |
| 0:30.4 | and helping our portfolio companies do the same. |
| 0:33.1 | Buckle up and let's build. |
| 0:39.5 | Why is that shit what I want to talk about is interview process and the |
| 0:43.5 | involvement of the CEO in that and just kind of creating a broad process for you to follow |
| 0:48.2 | if you do not have a structured multi-based interview process in your company. |
| 0:52.5 | Just to top of mind for me because I was actually at dinner with a CEO the other day. |
| 0:57.6 | And I was asking him about his company and everything that was going on. |
| 1:00.7 | And that pretty slow growth. |
| 1:02.6 | It seemed like he had stagnated a little bit. |
| 1:04.4 | And then I started asking a little bit of questions about the team because it seemed like he felt like he had a lot of people he needed to fire. |
| 1:11.1 | It seemed like he was actually really unaware of that. You know, they were people in leadership |
| 1:14.2 | that, you know, he was saying, you know, these people, you know, the rest of my team saying |
| 1:17.0 | need to fire these people now. And I'm thinking to myself, how do you not know if you need to fire |
| 1:22.0 | these people? And what I realized is he was very disconnected and uninvolved in not just the process of finding those |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Leila Hormozi, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Leila Hormozi and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.