The Battle between your Need to fill a role vs. hiring for cultural alignment.
More thought needs to go into “Who” you are going to hire than “What” you are going to hire. Meaning proven performers with transferable skills, not shiny objects.
Today’s Quote:
“Acquiring the right talent is the most important key to growth. Hiring was - and still is - the most important thing we do.”
- Marc Bennioff, Founder, Chairman and co-CEO of Salesforce
Guest Bio:
Ben Mones is the co-founder and CEO of Fama, an AI-based solution that identifies problematic behavior among potential hires and current employees by analyzing publicly available online information. He founded Fama in 2015 to address the needs of organizations everywhere that are grappling with the challenges of protecting their workplace culture and preventing harassment.
Prior to Fama, Ben held a number of executive roles at a variety of startups in the Bay Area, including Acceleprise, an independent accelerator focused on enterprise technology, where he served as Entreprenuer in Residence as well as Lanetix, a leading provider of cloud-based customer relationship management platforms as director, revenue operations. He also spent two years at content analytics and insights company Chartbeat. Ben has been tapped as a guest lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management, UCLA Anderson School of Management and USC Marshall School of Business, and has also been featured in CNBC, Fast Company, Los Angeles Times, TechCrunch and the Wall Street Journal. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Vanderbilt University and is based in Venice, California.
Show Highlights:
Problem:
Why is it important to invest in culture?
Why does Ego make decisions over common sense?
Anybody with a legitimate amount of responsibility makes a difference.
Rockstar engineers, leaders, need to fit into the organization, not the other way around
*** first-time founders Story:
Lesson Learned
Rick’s Input:
Solutions:
What road map should leaders follow?
Rick’s Framework
Key Takeaways:
Lorraine Ladd: Learning Your ABC's. Always Be reCruiting!
Steve Higginbotham: Employee Engagement Starts From the Interview. Broken Interview, Broken Engagement!
Dr Deena Brown: The Hiring Power of Relationship Capital! Or You’ve Been Cat-fished
Ken Middleton: Thank You for Ghosting Me During Your Interview Process
Anderee Berengian: Hiring Good People is Hard....Not if You Hire for Culture First
Shane Bernstein: Removing the Obstacles (Comparison Shoppers) that are Slowing Down Your Hiring Process!
Marinela Gombosev: An Alternate Route for a Startup to Hire Salespeople
Angel Iscovich: Routine Hiring is Great for Business!
Lee Caraher: Boomerang Hires Knock Out All Others!
Mitch Balzer: Comparison Shopping has No Place in Your Hiring Process!
Diane Lee: Interviewing Etiquette Brings Out the Truth
David Ferguson: Do Personality Assessments Create Lazy Interviews?
Anthony Camacho- Sniffing Out Excellence When Hiring Salespeople
Mike “Batman” Cohen: Let's stop talking about Diversity & Inclusion as a Strategy
Special Event: Erik Huberman from TiECon SoCal
Mark Angel: How to Hire, Build Process & Lead in a Distributed Startup
Special Event: Beerud Sheth from TiECon SoCal
Ernie Basulto: Non-Verbal Clues to Discover the Truth in the Interview
Special Event: Brian Frankel from TiECon SoCal
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