Episode 236： How To Hire The Best： 4 Key Qualities To Look For
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Summary
In this episode, I talk about the 4 qualities that I look for when hiring and why they are so important in order to hire the best in the marketplace. 1. Love 2. Loyalty 3. Work Ethic 4. Trust
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I'm Patrick Bedevi, your host of Alutainment, and today I'm going to talk to you about
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four qualities to look for when you want to hire the best in the marketplace.
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You ever hear people in all these books that we read saying, you know, I hire for these
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qualities, and this other guy says, I hire for those qualities, and then eventually
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we have a book, 40 different reasons to hire somebody for, so what quality is what?
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And so, to me, over the last 10 years, from making so many mistakes on hiring and firing
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people, I've come up with four things that I hire for, and this is so interesting because
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this conversation came up this morning with our staff, and I asked them, I said, what
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And they literally said every one of the things that I hire for, and I'll cover it with you
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So, think about it this way, when you're in business and you're new in business, it's
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typically very easy to hire people, and you have a very hard time firing people because
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you're emotionally attached or you're afraid to fire somebody, right?
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The longer you're in business, it actually becomes harder for you to hire somebody because
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you're picking and choosing who you're going to put your time onto, and it's very easy to
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fire people because you actually don't fire that many people.
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If you do this properly, you're not firing that many people.
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It's either they don't become part of the environment, which is a small percentage because you've
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learned how to hire, or life happens, and they end up having to walk away because life
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So, let me talk to you about the four things that I look for when I'm hiring somebody.
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I look for someone who loves the company, who loves a vision that you're casting, I'm
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casting, loves a crusade, that their heart starts connecting with it because if you can
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hire, my experience has been, if you can hire people based on love, you don't need to have
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work ethic on a list because love is an action, in my opinion.
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If love is an action, and the definition of love to you is also an action, it's a verb,
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then that means everything from love, work ethic comes because of love.
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So if someone loves, they're going to have a work ethic.
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If parents make food for their kids three meals a day, not because they have to, but because
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If parents put the time to drop off the kids in the morning and pick them up and work so
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hard and do this and do that, love, there's no manual that says you've got to work hard when
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you're a parent, no, the manual is you love, they have a place in your heart, so you work.
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So, and another thing with love is this as well, to keep in mind, I don't, you can't
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force somebody to love you, your vision, your company, you can't do it.
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And if you constantly are trying to force somebody to love you, it's kind of like the
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guy who's in love with this girl and he loves her so much, but she doesn't love him, she
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likes him, and she tolerates him, and all his life he's trying to earn her love, and
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You know, they're just together because it's good.
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This guy has all his life, and that can be very draining.
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I don't want to hire for forcing somebody to love.
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If you don't, no problem, you're going to find a place that you're going to love, and
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we're going to find people that we're going to hire that we're going to love as well,
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The second point that I look for is my buddy Jose this morning came and trained some of
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our staff, and he said, you know, how his business has been growing very fast because
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his team's level of trust is at the highest it's ever been.
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He says, Pat, the way we trust one another right now is something else I've never seen
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You know, everybody's trusting each other, and I remember one of my good friends, George,
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asked me maybe nine years ago, he said, hey, Patrick, what's the number one thing you look
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Trust and loyalty to me is very, very important.
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And trust is something that it doesn't happen overnight.
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So, when I hire somebody and I'm going to be working with them, I'm going to put time
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The trust may take three, six months where I trust them.
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He said, when I hire new talent, I micromanage them until I trust them.
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I think it's more monitoring, setting expectations, seeing what they're doing, hold them accountable,
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until more and more you're letting go, letting go, letting go, and then boom, you can let them
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do it because trust level is at an all-time high.
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And then that person doing business with you, based on your consistencies and your habits
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and them seeing that you are true to your vision, to your cause, the level of trust from
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And the higher the level of trust, it's a very easy environment to do business with.
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Speed is important because you'll hear people say, well, would you rather have somebody that
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works very fast, but they're not very efficient, or have somebody that's very efficient, but
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You know, I think it's an excuse when people say, you can't find speed and efficiency at
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I think there's plenty of people that are fast and efficient at the same time.
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It's really expectation and it's time management that that person's got to work on.
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But if I'm working with somebody that's got speed, especially in a startup environment,
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if you're running a startup, it's very, very important to have the kind of an environment
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There's typically a lot faster deadlines in a startup environment than a company that's
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A company that's been on for 50 years, they don't have a lot of fast deadlines.
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But let me also tell you, a company that's been on for 50 years, what they don't do, they
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It may take them six months to make a decision, but their deadline also may be three months
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where a deadline in a startup company may be a week or maybe tomorrow at five o'clock.
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But the point is the deadlines in a startup is a lot faster.
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And the last one to me, you know, you know, kind of solves all three problems.
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I love working with people who are purely committed to improvement.
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If I'm working with somebody who is not good in a certain area, but they come back and say,
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Pat, I promise you, give me two to four weeks, look how good I'll be at.
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That shows me that person is committed to beating their prior best, personal development,
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There is nothing like working with a group of people that are constantly working on getting
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When I started, I run a book club, International Book Club, it's called the Entrepreneur Book
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But I've been running a book club with my staff for five years.
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Every month, I recommend a book and a team, the entire staff goes and reads the book.
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We sit at the conference room and we go through, tell me what you got out of the book.
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And we have seen people where three years ago were frightened of certain things to work
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I can't tell you how incredible they are today.
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Conflicts between two people that they couldn't work together.
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They are best friends now running together as a team.
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You know, somebody who was afraid of speaking in front of an audience or calling on people
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or business, they have improved to a whole different level because they have committed to
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They have committed to constantly getting better.
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So if I find somebody who loves what they do with us, the company, the brand, the vision,
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If they are trusting, and they trust because you got to have both, it's very hard when
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you work somebody that doesn't trust and it's very hard you work with somebody that you don't
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Speed is automatically going to go to a whole different level.
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And you have personal development which eventually leads to efficiency, you have a winner there.
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You find somebody with those four, you put your time and resources into it because that
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could be somebody long term that your time is not going to be wasted because they're not
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You don't need to tell them to work because they love what they do.
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They're trusting and you trust them and they trust you.
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Speed is in the right place as well as working on themselves and improving.
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If you give them a challenge, they're going to work on it together with you.
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That's a long term person to invest your time into.
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