On hiring

For the lid and the pot (Part 1)

Fun fact: What Would Dale Do? started as a fever dream.

In a fit of insomnia, I sat up in bed one night, somewhere between 2 and 3 o’clock in the morning and furiously wrote several pages (scrawled in pencil) of what is now the foreword. (I should find it, I know, one day it’s bound to be worth millions).

For a while, my modern take on Dale Carnegie’s “How to Win Friends and Influence People,” lived in the privacy of my own Google Suite. Until one day, when I decided that it was much, much easier to link people to public urls than to continuously open and share my 120+ pages of unorganized docs. And so, here we are.

There was only one problem (that’s not true, but let’s start with this one), and that’s that: instead of being an international man of industry (like our friend Dale), I’m a recruiter; a simple woman of the people.

On one hand, I needed a hefty section wherein I could translate my worldview from talent acquisition; AND, on the other, there wasn’t a natural place to insert this detour.

So in honor of…the solstice? Or, perhaps my kids’ end of school-year, that’s what you get this week: a deep-dive on Dale Carnegie-wisdom — as it pertains to recruitment.

On the hiring side, there are three principles to live (and recruit) by:

1. Start with the Jobs To Be Done (JTBD)

2. Sing from the same song sheet

3. Hire the *very* best