#48, Hire with your Head: Secrets of Successful Recruiting w/ Lou Adler

Anatomy of a Leader with Maria Hvorostovsky

English - February 07, 2023 07:00 - 59 minutes - 54.6 MB
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Lou Adler has been shaking up the recruitment industry for over 40 years (though don’t remind him of that).

Lou saw that the way companies traditionally hired people was broken and created the Performance-Based Hiring model. He even wrote a bestselling book about it - “Hire With Your Head: Using Performance-Based Hiring to Build Outstanding Diverse Teams”.

His company, The Adler Group, has trained 40k managers and placed 1.5k execs for top companies like Disney and Paycom and is currently running a course on how to use Chat GPT for recruiting.

On LinkedIn, Lou has nearly 1.4 million followers - so naturally I wanted to talk to him to find out all his secrets.

In Episode 48 we talk about why hiring is broken, skills of successful recruiters, how to hire your core C-suite team as a founder, what is culture fit and how to use Chat GPT for hiring.

We Discuss:

00:00 - Trailer

02:29 - Lou’s journey into recruitment

05:37 - The broken hiring process

10:55 - Chat GPT in recruiting

14:31 - Internal recruiters vs third party headhunters

17:52 - Skills of successful recruiters

24:41 - The TOP interview question

29:38 - Advice to Founders hiring their team

36:52 - Culture fit

41:15 - Lou’s biggest failure

44:24 - Future of recruitment